Protest against the right to veto the Nursing Act, the Gyeonggi Provincial Nurses Association “rejects illegal orders from doctors”… Participation in Compliance Struggle
Nurses’ backlash against President Yoon Seok-yeol’s스포츠토토 exercise of the right to request reconsideration (veto right) of the enactment of the Nursing Act is intensifying. The Gyeonggi-do Nurses Association, which includes 37,000 nurses in Gyeonggi-do, also joins the Korean Nursing Association’s ‘law-abiding struggle’.
On the 18th, the Gyeonggi-do Nurses Association decided to share the compliance struggle guidelines received from the Korean Nursing Association with medical institutions in the Gyeonggi-do area and participate in the compliance struggle.
This is what the Korean Nursing Association announced at a press conference the day before, and the intention is to improve the practice of illegal medical practices that nurses have been doing even though it is not their original job due to a lack of manpower in the medical field.
Nurses perform surrogate prescriptions/surgeries, proxy records, blood collection, ultrasound/electrocardiography, arterial blood collection, anticancer drug preparation, nasogastric tube ( L-tube )/tracheal tube ( T-tube ) exchange, tracheal intubation, suturing, inputting the number of surgeries, etc. I plan to reject the doctor’s illegal order about it.
In addition, it plans to distribute a list of doctors’ illegal work that nurses must reject to medical institutions, and establish an illegal treatment reporting center within the association.
The Gyeonggi-do Nurses Association decided to share group action tips and collect related opinions through a Zoom meeting attended by the heads of nursing departments in the province at 5:30 pm on the same day. Also, on the 19th, he will attend the ‘Rally to Condemn the President’s Exercise of the Nursing Act Veto’ held in Gwanghwamun.
An official from the Gyeonggi Provincial Nursing Association said, “We plan to participate in the condemnation rally voluntarily according to each schedule, rather than a strike that causes disruption to the medical field. Due to the nature of nurses working in three shifts, it is expected that nurses who are off duty or who work overnight will attend.” said.