South Korea granted nurses new powers and legal protections Tuesday, and launched an investigation into a patient's death, as hospital chaos caused by striking trainee doctors entered a second week.
Nurses will now be allowed to perform some medical procedures previously reserved for doctors, and offered immunity from potential lawsuits linked to their new scope of work, Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo said.
So not only are the “empowering” nurses to do things the aren’t authorized to do, they won’t be liable for any harm they cause.
Maybe the government should meet the doctors demands instead of trying literally everything else
While the solution seems flimsy at best, reading the article makes things a bit more complicated.
As far as I can tell, what doctors are striking against is a raise in the admission numbers for medical schools, as they think it will worsen working conditions.
Major hospitals are struggling to provide services after thousands of junior medics handed in their resignations and stopped working last week to protest against government plans to sharply increase medical school admissions in the face of a rapidly ageing society.
Seoul says it has one of the lowest doctor-to-population ratios among developed countries and the government is pushing hard to admit 2,000 more students to medical schools annually from next year.
So not only are the “empowering” nurses to do things the aren’t authorized to do, they won’t be liable for any harm they cause.
Maybe the government should meet the doctors demands instead of trying literally everything else
While the solution seems flimsy at best, reading the article makes things a bit more complicated. As far as I can tell, what doctors are striking against is a raise in the admission numbers for medical schools, as they think it will worsen working conditions.
So what are the doctors striking for? This sounds like a good thing?
I agree, and your guess is as good as mine.