The Importance Of Nursing Care In Japan

NURSING CARE WORKERS CRYSIS IN JAPAN

A good medical care facility in any country needs a proper nursing care facilities, and not to mention Japan has that. In my study what I seen in documents and other video sources that the nurses in Japan re more capable of treating their patients with much care and love, and patients there feels much safe and sound by the treatments they gets from there. But as my research goes on, despite the nursing care supremacy in Japan, there is a big problem considering the situation which putting the whole nursing care system in a dire situation. The higher population aging problem put the Japanese young generation in a hold, and for that purpose the jobs in nursing care system is not having their popularity

The shortage of nursing care facilities and homes are much more in the six following prefectures, including the greater Tokyo area, Osaka and Aichi that are home to companies such as Panasonic Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. Tokyo alone will have to be burden by 743,000 numbers of old people over the age of 75, and will have 1.98 million old people above that age by 2025, according to the reports of health ministry of Japan’s surveys. Tokyo nursing homes are particularly struggle to raise wages because government subsidies which are not reflecting price differences between cities and rural areas. So, the operators profit margins in capital cities are much lower than facilities of rural areas. The Japanese capital aims to increase the number of beds in medical care facilities by 50 percent by 2025 and is paying incentives to encourage nursing home operators. Japan opened its medical care labour market for nurses and caregivers from Indonesia and the Philippines as part of trade agreements in 2008, and also did the same arrangement with the Vietnam after 2009 also. But because of falling birth rate the young and productive workers number had been downwards for a long time, which affected the active nurse’s number. Still Japan is strict on the policy importing foreign nurses from outside of Japan. According to Japanese health ministry’s history Japan’s first modern nursing care facilities created in 1885, after that throughout all these time, it’s been a core structure of Japanese medical system. In the nursing care facilities the certified nurses are more than capable of speeding the skill to other non-certified nurses who are working in many local and private facilities. On the other hand home visits by nurses to elderly people are becoming much more efficient than before. In this way the elderly who can’t come down to hospital or other