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Review on Nursing Bill - With focus on bill for promotion of nationals nursing and improve ment of nurses position -

No one can deny that in contemporary society, not only doctors but nurses play indispensable role for the health of nationals. In this acc ord, there came a necessity that law to protect the health right of nationals and improve the position of nurses should be established as independent law in tune with social reality and the trend of nursing science academic circle. However, though there is increasing demand of diverse and specialized nursing services like home nursing and aged nursing etc, present ｢Medical Services Act｣ prescribes the work of nurse as assisting doctor s assistant in medical action, so the reality is that the Act does not comprehend the work of nurse that is ever diversifying and specialized in tune with social changes. Therefore, there are impending demand to raise the quality of nursing service by clarifying the work scope of nurse and effectively regulating on nurses while securing the health right of the nationals by establishing independent law to promote the health of nationals and improve the position of nurse. In South Korea, the majority of professional occupations are regulated by individual laws, and also in majoradvanced countries of the world, nurse related laws are separately established and operated, so when it is considered that nurses play important role for the health of nationals, it is deemed that nurse related laws also need be established as independent law in view of social reality and nursing science academic circle. The past and present roles of nurses are undergoing unprecedented changes, and only law that reflects such changes can exercise social capability of norm. Therefore, partial modification of medical act al one by situation involves limitation to regulate the nursing work of nurses, and the medical act in that sense is insufficient to serve as normative instruction for nursing work and is not suitable as standard to judge the point of responsibility in nursing act. Hence, in this study, the foundation of 「Bill for promotion of national health and improvement of nurse position」 was prepared through survey on the relation with medical law based on nursing act (bills) initiated so far, and after, and after the work scope of nurse was specifically classified by distinguishing from doctor, problems of comprehensive rules of present medical act were reviewed. Also, for protection of the health right of nationals, the problems of nurse work condition and treatment improvement were examined.