간호사와 간호조무사의 업무범위에 관한 고찰

In Korea, under the current medical law, nurses are medical personnel and are granted a license to perform medical activities such as medical assistance within that range. On the other hand, nursing assistants are not medical personnel, but they are allowed to perform nursing and medical assistance with qualification recognition. In this situation, due to the increasing demand for nursing, a 'proposal to enact the Nursing Act' has been discussed, which separates the nurse's job among medical personnel and stipulates necessary matters related to nursing in a separate law. However, the bill stipulates the work of nurses and nursing assistants, and it was difficult to find a large difference between the proposed nursing law enactment and the current medical law. Therefore, in this paper, the status of nurses and nursing assistants in relation to the principle of division of labor, especially in cases that actually occurred through Korean precedents, and the scope of medical assistance of nurses or nursing assistants under the guidance of doctors, dentists, and oriental doctors were reviewed to examine the duties or scope of work between each job. In addition, in Japan and the United States, we compared the systems corresponding to nurses and nursing assistants in Korea and how they understood the scope of work of each job. In order for the enactment of the nursing law to be justified in the future, it is necessary to check what the work of nurses and nursing assistants is and how to coordinate their scope in line with the changing policy reality. This can be referred to as the work setting according to the system of nursing personnel, as shown in Japanese and American legislation, including precedents.