The government is encouraging unemployed people to become health care workers because there is a chronic shortage in the nursing care business. Do you think that is a good idea?
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smartacus
No, nursing care, especially for the elderly, infirmed and Alzheimer's patients, is a vocation, not a career. It takes a special kind of person with a lot of compassion in their heart to do it. You don't do it for money.
I remember when we looked for a home for my mother, who has Alzheimer's, we saw horror facilities where the staff gave them no love at all. Oftentimes, the staff strapped the patients in their beds just so they could take a break. Finally, we found a good home where the staff join the patients in singalongs, put make-up on them, give them back rubs, take them for walks, etc. When I watch those staff at work, knowing what they have to do (taking patients to the toilet etc), I admire them and know I could never do that job, no matter how much I was paid.
I think the same applies to Japan. You just can't take an unemployed person, give them some quick training and send them to a nursing care facility. It has to be a calling.
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bamboohat
So far, for these jobs, the only options that have been presented so far are:
Unemployed, unqualified Japanese Robots (serious) Qualified Foreigners
What is best, and what is easiest are rarely the same thing, in any case.
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hakujinsensei
smartacus is right. if the workers couldnt make it as automatons, how in the world could they make it as care givers that have to think on their feet and play entertainer, baby sitter, counselor, and pseudo nurse at the same time. takes a special person, no doubt about it. I think the three in todays picture could possibly be cut out for the job. they should just cull the ranks of talentless 'talento' n reassign them. what about aging and disillusioned sex workers? got a unique skill set there that is terribly underutilized after they retire. then they could take the unemployed and rotate them thru as c.e.o's of financial firms and use them to replace the diet and primeminister. surely they could no worse than the status quo. how bout an emperor of the week?
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M51T
It always makes me laugh when people palm their elderly off and then blame the care workers for not loving the patients.
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GW
stupid idea, if its that easy to do that job(and it most certainly isnt) then why do they make foreigners who want to do the job jump through so many hoops for a shot at it.
Again, this idea is stupid!
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telecasterplayer
Well, is the govt also urging these people to get the proper training?
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boitoi
if the compensation is right and higher than the salaryman is earning, why not. i would consider career shifting.
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DenTok2009
It's a good idea. I think the government must be offering some sort of tuition assistance. After all, you must be certified/licensed. I don't think it's a case of, "Hey, I can't get a job in banking/telecommunications/factories so I am applying to become a health care worker. When do I start?"
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solarbuster
They need to give workers at least a months work experience before pushing them into courses. Just pushing them in first is a waste of time and money because 60% won't be able to handle the stress related to caring work and will leave or make poor care workers.
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seesaw
The whole idea seems silly to me. Those unemployed people are not interested in the nursing job but would be doing it out of desperation. And that would lead to more future professional negligence at hospitals in Japan.
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nisegaijin
Yes. Diversion of labor is a good idea during tough times. As long as government involvement is limited to "advice" it's a good move in my book.
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mark_in_japan
First, they aren't health care workers in the sense most people would think of. They are nursing home helpers, basically: helping bathe bedridden people, emptying bed pans, etc. Second, it's a very bad idea because it allows the operators of nursing homes to continue to underpay these positions. These kind of helpers get paid barely more than convenience store workers and in the name of giving work to those who are without nursing home operators will continue to abuse these employees.
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helloklitty
Anything to get them off the dole.
What else would be better: rubbish collection?
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Kalinikos
I agree with smartacus...!
Helth care work is a vocation...!
Elderly people are the future of this nation, and not the childrens, this is a fact...!
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ca1ic0cat
If they can get a place in school and get the grades (without the curriculum being "dumbed down") then sure, let them become health professionals, if they choose to.
But, who is going to pay tuition and living expenses while they are in school? It's easy to say "do this," it's another thing to be able to afford the time away from work. I know I couldn't. And if I was unemployed tuition would be a non-starter.
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soothsayer
yep.
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Badsey
Actually they are health care workers = CNA or PCW. Japan's population is aging and more of these people are needed. Maybe if all health care workers (Doctors included) started at the bottom you would have better health care at the top?
Japan needs to encourage people to get jobs in areas that are needed. Even an out of work engineer may get motovated to do some innovation in this field by temp work.
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kanadamanada
Ah yes, anything to keep the immigrant hordes at bay. I guess Hitachi too will be upset that the government is going to shelve their elderly care robot design in favour of any down-on-his-luck-Taro.
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Blue_Tiger
Yes, it is a good idea. The work is readily available and hospitals and clinics are in a pretty bad situation. It is the samei n the USA.
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OneForAll
mark in Japan has it right.
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