Research for new nursing care workers in nursing homes of elderly people with dementia related to the environmental condition.

本研究的目的是要厘清新护理员在照顾失智人士时所遇到的困难，并找出加速他们职场适应的方法。研究对象是在全国范围内随机抽取的137名特殊养老院的新护工。观察到的困难类型如下：(1)新护理人员对老年痴呆患者的言行含义及其背景缺乏了解；(2)他们对此类患者的护理形象与实际护理工作存在差距；(3)护理人员无法顺利处理任务。

The purpose of this study was to clarify difficulties new nursing care workers experienced in the care of demented people, and to find ways to accelerate their workplace adaptation. Study subjects were 137 new care workers for special nursing homes that were randomly sampled nationwide. The kinds of difficulties observed were as follows : (1) new care staff's lack of understanding of the meanings of old dementia sufferers' words and actions as well as their backgrounds ; (2) a gap between their image of care for such patients and their actual care work ; and (3) care staff's inability to smoothly deal with their tasks.