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40% of nurses “experience” burns “
In the background of the burning, there is also a bad work environment.
Expert “Nurses must improve internal midnight efforts and hospital management awareness”
The death of nurse Ji-yoon Seo, who committed suicide after suffering a ‘burn’, a hospital malpractice that ‘mourns to ashes’, was recognized as an occupational disaster. Photo = Yonhap News
According to the Public Transport Union Medical Solidarity on the 9th, the Seoul Occupational Illness Trial Committee of the Labor Welfare Corporation recognized the death of a nurse on the 29th of last month and a significant causal relationship between work and illness. related to work, and recognized it as an occupational disease.
As a result of reviewing the related data by the committee, it was found that the nurse made an extreme decision in a state where normal cognitive ability declined as overwork and work-related stress accumulated.
Nurse Seo, who previously worked at the Seoul Medical Center, was found dead at her home in January last year. The grieving family raised suspicions that there would be extreme harassment in the workplace called a “burn” in this context.
According to a survey conducted by the Countermeasures Facts Survey Committee consisting of Seo nurse survivors and the union’s recommendations, Nurse Seo worked non-rotating in the highest work intensity team from July 2015 to December 16, 2018. The total annual total working hours of nurses in 2018 was 217 days, more than the average of 19 workers (212 days) in the same period, and 83 days per night, which was higher than the same class (76 days).
As a result, nurses have called to change departments or resign due to frequent shift schedule changes, unreasonable work hours, and night shift problems. Additionally, he is reported to have complained of the pain of working nights to his acquaintances. In addition, the Task Force identified the circumstances in which some employees made insulting words and actions to the deceased.
Before making extreme decisions, Nurse Seo also sent messages like “I can’t work due to the scary atmosphere”, “I’m so lonely and sad” and “I was scolded while having coffee.” In addition, he left a statement on his suicide note saying: “I do not want to receive condolences from the people at the hospital.”
As such, ‘burning’, which is a problem in the medical world, comes from the meaning of ‘burning the soul until it turns to ashes’, and means mental and physical harassment in which a senior nurse applies education to a new nurse in the name of education. In most cases, excessive profanity is considered a leading cause of nurse turnover.
Social issues about burning have been raised over and over again. Nurse Park Seon-wook, who worked in the intensive care unit at Asan Hospital in Seoul, also suffered a ‘burn’ and made an extreme decision in February 2018.
Before his death, Nurse Park said in her cell phone book: “The pressure at work, the preceptor’s eyes, the symptoms of depression and anxiety became more and more severe. Due to the 3 or 4 hours of sleep at day and the meals that I skipped every time, I didn’t recover more and more. “He complained of pain.
On the afternoon of February 16 last year, at Cheonggye Plaza in Jongno-gu, Seoul, the ‘Joint Countermeasures Committee for the Investigation of the Death of the late Nurse Park Seon-wook, Industrial Accident Recognition and Recurrence Prevention ‘and’ Seoul Medical Center ‘At the commemoration of the two nurses organized by the “Committee”, participants carry signs with their hands that say “Do not kill the nurses anymore”. Photo = Yonhap News
In a survey conducted by the Korean Nursing Association of 7,275 nurses in 2018, the most common types of burns were △ screaming and ranting (62.7%) △ spreading gossip or bad rumors (47%) making it ridiculous (44.5 %) · Duplicate responses cited).
In particular, 40.9% of the nurses who responded experienced burns and the subjects of harassment were senior nurses and preceptors (supervised nurses) 30.2%, fellow nurses 27.1%, nursing department heads 13.3% and doctors 8.3%.
Against the background of Taewoom culture, poor work environment was also found to play a role. According to data presented by the National Assembly Office of Legislative Research last month by Seon-woo Kang, a member of the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee, the number of patients per worker for each nurse in Korea was 16, 3. This is double the average of 8.8 people in 12 European countries and the United States.
Faced with this situation, there is a growing voice that punishment regulations need to be strengthened to avoid ‘burned culture’. This is because the Labor Standards Act, which has been revised to prevent the burning of nurses, has no penalties, and since the reporting of the abuse case and the subject of the investigation are the employers in the same workplace. , it is virtually impossible to properly investigate whether the employer is the perpetrator.
Recently, a petition article titled ‘Please Strongly Punish Burning Nurses for Workplace Harassment’ was posted on the Blue House National Petition bulletin board. The petitioner, who identified himself as a registered nurse, said: “Taewoom, there are still no changes”, and said: “Even if there is bullying in the workplace, only corrective measures are taken in the hospital.” He urged, “if you go to the Ministry of Labor and report it, if it is a law that only takes corrective action, it must be changed,” he urged.
The experts noted that the burns should be eradicated not only through the efforts of the internal nurses at midnight, but also through a better awareness of hospital management.
Choi Min, a specialist in vocational and environmental medicine at the Korea Labor Institute for Occupational Health, said: “Unsystematic and insufficient training of new nurses, heavy work pressure, etc. acted as harassment” in the ‘Changes and future tasks caused by the successive deaths of nurses’ held in the National Assembly in September last year. He noted that “it is important to adequately support new nurses.”
Specialist Choi said: “Along with efforts to change the work environment of nurses, basic efforts should be accompanied to determine the size of suicide of the nurse’s work. This is not a problem only for nurses, but the scale of suicide by cause. “We must start with establishing a suicide prevention policy that focuses on the ‘reason and cause’ that we had to estimate and investigate, and choose suicide.”
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