The Nurse Shortage Problem in Japan
The Nurse Shortage Problem in Japan
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日本的护士短缺问题
DOI：
10.1177/096973309700400309
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发表时间：
1997
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影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Aiko Sawada
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作者：
Aiko Sawada
本文讨论了日本目前护士短缺约5万人的严重问题。如果管理者不采取有效措施加以解决，那么在老年人增多、年轻一代人数减少的社会中，今后的劳动力短缺问题将更加严重。日本护理劳动力短缺的主要原因有：1986年至1989年期间，医院病床数量迅速增加;工作条件恶劣;护士在工作地点的社会地位低下。在这些因素的背后，我们的社会一直存在着对护理艺术的轻视。为什么日本社会轻视护理？可以确定三点：对妇女的传统歧视;我们对宗教心态的漠视;以及我们医院护理的历史很短。为了克服这些问题，我们必须首先从根本上改变我们的价值观，例如彼此相爱和同情。我们现在必须在我们的社会中重建一种关怀的文化。
This article discusses the serious problem of the shortage of about 50 000 nurses in Japan today. If efficient measures to solve it are not adopted by administrators, it is clear that the shortage will become still more alarming in the future, in a society with more people in advanced years and in which the numbers in the younger generation will decrease from now on. The main factors behind the Japanese nursing labour shortage are, among others: a rapid increase in the number of hospital beds between 1986 and 1989; poor working conditions; and nurses’ low social position in their places of work. Behind these factors, there has always been a contempt for the art of nursing in our society. Why has Japanese society made light of nursing? Three points can be identified: traditional discrimination against women; our disregard for a religious mentality; and our short history of hospital nursing. To overcome these problems, we must first of all change fundamentally our sense of values, such as love for one another and compassion. We must now reconstruct a caring culture in our society.