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With the labor shortage in the nursing care industry expected to become even more serious in the future, initiatives are being carried out in various regions to help middle school and high school students learn about the appeal of nursing care work.
One example of this is the provision of classes by current caregivers and others to schools.
The other day, I had a chance to cover the situation.
However, to be honest, I was left with a vague feeling of “Is this the right thing to do?”
The main body of this project is the city, which dispatches instructors to schools of their choice.
Instructors are selected with the cooperation of nursing care business organizations and other factors, taking into consideration factors such as whether they work at a business near the school.
The on-site class I covered was aimed at first-year junior high school students and had over 100 participants.
Employees from day services and special nursing homes spoke for about 15 minutes about their jobs.
Now, if you were to be a lecturer and explain nursing care work to first-year junior high school students, what points would you consider?
When I was a newspaper reporter, I often gave lectures and seminars on the themes of nursing care and business for the elderly, and when doing so, I was careful to “make sure that my speech was tailored to the audience’s basic knowledge and understanding.” The point is to do the following.
This time’s audience was first year junior high school students. I was an elementary school student until 9 months ago.
You could say that I know very little about work or society.
If you want to explain nursing care to them, it is important to avoid using technical terms and to use analogies to things that are familiar to junior high school students, such as music, anime, games, and sports.
For example, day care services may be easier to understand if you explain that they are places where elderly people go to do gymnastics and other activities in the same way that you study and participate in club activities at school during the day.
However, the first thing I said in the actual class was, “I am a social worker.”
Even among adults, there are probably only a few people who have an accurate understanding of what social workers are.
I’m sure the students’ heads were filled with questions like “?”. However, the class continues without any hesitation.
Technical terms such as “care worker,” “judo therapist,” and “vital” come up one after another.
The students are now completely left behind.
I also interview nursing care and medical professionals on a daily basis, and sometimes I get tired of them repeating technical terms.
This is fine if the reader is a media interview with nursing care or medical professionals, but if the media is aimed at general consumers, it cannot be written as is.
When this happens, I ask, “Are you sure you want to say ○○?” and rephrase it in a more understandable way, but sometimes people say, “No, it’s slightly different…” Not a few.
In this way, professionals tend to be particular about terminology and phrasing.
However, the important thing is to get the message across to the other person.
I don’t think it needs to be a 100% correct term, what do you think?
Many care workers say, “I want to convey to as many people the rewarding and attractive nature of nursing care work.”
However, it seems that there are many people who are unable to “convey ideas”.
If I had been able to tell stories that really stuck with the students in this class, dozens of them might have gone on to pursue a career in nursing care five or ten years from now. This is truly a shame.
In the nursing care industry, there are many “professionals” such as influencers and YouTubers who have millions of followers on SNS.
This might be difficult in a class like this one that involves government, but I think there could have been a way to invite them to be lecturers.
It is not every day that we have the opportunity to convey the appeal of nursing care work to a large number of young people who have no bias towards nursing care.
However, this incident made me keenly aware that the current nursing care industry is not making good use of these opportunities.
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Kazunori Nishioka
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Nursing care/real estate/travel
I worked as a newspaper reporter for 21 years, mainly for nursing care industry publications, and am currently freelance.
The position of Jite is mainly in the nursing care field, which has the longest career.In addition to writing various columns and interviews with presidents and employees for companies’ websites, etc., we also provide support for creating corporate releases and company newsletters.
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