Dis-eases of Korean nurses: a women's health perspective.

Abstract

http://kjwhn.org 268 As families with happy mothers are happy, patients cared for by happy nurses will have higher hospitalization satisfaction. However, just as we neglect the health of mothers who are primary caregivers at home, we tend to neglect nurses’ wellbeing in hospitals. Women’s health refers to the overall experience of women and their ‘dis-ease’, a term that was proposed with a feminist lens as a direct contrast to ‘disease’ [1]. As most nurses are women, women’s health nurses need to pay particular attention to the dis-ease experienced by nurses. This editorial aims to illustrate the dis-ease, i.e., various sources of uncomfortableness experienced by nurses nurses in South Korea (hereafter Korea), its related factors, and suggest directions for improvement. Understanding nurses’ dis-ease will be the first step to improve the quality of life of nurses and may also help to encourage nurse retention and a stable supply of nursing personnel.