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Abstract

This article is a review of the Nursing Act (bill) currently pending in the National Assembly, in relation to the “shortage of medical personnel” which is one of the most important problems experienced in the current Corona situation, based on a critical perspective on the current medical law. The first part of this article is allotted to reviewing the history and current status of legislation. The history of the failure of nursing law independence, which has been promoted for more than 45 years, is briefly reviewed, and the main issues of pros and cons that remain unchanged even today are reviewed. These are the dependency problem of nursing work, the effectiveness problem of the professional nurse system, and the status problem of the nursing assistant. In the middle of the article, in relation to these conflicting issues, the contents of the current Medical Service Act and the pending Nursing Act (bill) were reviewed in detail. In particular, the main study was to analyze in detail how much the problems of the current Medical Service Act can be solved through the Nursing Act (bill), but the results were somewhat disappointing. The effectiveness of the enactment of the Nursing Act (bill) can be expected with respect to the problem of the scope of work and improving treatment of nurses, but the policy for professional nurses and nursing assistants is prescribed as ‘not to solve, but to ignore’. In the last part of the article, a critical review of the excessive prudence that ignores the medical reality was conducted. The vertical structure that exists in the medical system, the power bias toward nurses, who have an absolute majority of women, and the problems in the current medical system, which are consistent with the logic of adherence to interests and economic feasibility, are summarized and critically analyzed based on major issues.