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may have heard the word'burn', which means mental and physical harassment among nurses in hospitals.
There are nurses who killed themselves because they were not able to endure the burning of being bothered enough to burn them all. In this regard, the second industrial accident was recognized.
Reporter Jeong Seong-jin reports.
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The last message from the late nurse Ji-yoon Seo of the Seoul Medical Center who killed himself in January of last year was'I don't want people in our hospital to receive condolences.'
An occupational accident was recognized for a nurse who left after accusing the so-called nursing workplace bullying,'burn'.
The Korea Labor Welfare Corporation determined that it is reasonable to assume that the nurse made an extreme choice in a state where his normal cognitive ability declined as a result of the accumulation of work-related overwork and stress and suffering mentally related to the workplace situation.
As a result of an investigation by the Citizens' Countermeasure Committee after the death of Nurse Seo, it was confirmed that nurse Seo complained to her family that she was reprimanded for coffee at work and suffered from harassment and abusive language from her fellow employees.
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the survivor will last as basis I filed for an industrial accident in May and it was accepted in half a year.
Earlier in March last year, an industrial accident was recognized for the first time as'burning', an in-hospital harassment, against a late nurse Park Seon-wook of Asan Medical Center in Seoul, who killed himself in February 2018.
While welcoming the recognition of industrial accidents, the Citizens' Countermeasures Committee pointed out that there is still a lack of implementation of recommendations such as improving the working environment for nursing personnel and improving grievance handling.
(Video editing: Soyoung Lee)