More than half of “nursing training inadequate” due to the influence of the new corona Miyagi July 31, 18:57
Due to the impact of the new coronavirus, more than half of the vocational schools and universities in Miyagi prefecture learn how to treat patients at hospitals and cannot perform nursing training sufficiently, and how to develop human resources who support medical care is an issue. It has become.
NHK interviewed 18 vocational schools and universities that train nurses and associate nurses in Miyagi Prefecture about the effects of the new coronavirus as of mid-July.
Regarding nursing practice learned through medical treatment of patients at hospitals, 7 schools answered "almost never started" and 3 schools answered "not started at all" I understand.
There were 12 schools that were not expected to start nursing training as usual, mainly because they were refused by the receiving hospital for infection prevention.
The teachers commented, “The students lose their self-confidence, they are worried about the difference between ideal and reality before and after getting a job, and they may lead to a reality shock.”
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare says that “in-school training”, which is conducted at school with teachers acting as patients, substitutes for nursing training. There are many parts that do not exist, and there is a limit in on-the-job training.”
Professor Kazuko Takahashi of Miyagi University, who is familiar with the training of nurses, said, “Nurses who have insufficient experience will go to the medical field as it is. The government will grasp the hospital that can accept students and tell the school side I want you to embark."
Nursing school students and teachers raise concerns
Nursing school students and teachers are even more worried that the infection is spreading again this month.
The Sendai Medical Association Nursing College in Sendai City receives students from more than 20 hospitals in the prefecture for nursing training for 7 months from May to December every year. Due to the spread of the infection, many hospitals said that they could not accept it, and we had no choice but to cancel it in May.
Last month, seven hospitals started accepting nursing practice after the infection subsided.
However, this month a cluster re-occurred in Sendai city, so the nursing practice that had already started at one hospital was canceled, and the practice that was scheduled to start at another hospital was once canceled. It was
At school, teachers play the role of patients and use children's dolls to supplement the practical training, but I suspect that lack of experience due to being unable to touch actual patients may affect the future. And teachers are worried.
On 29th of this month, the students were planning to make a report on nursing practice for this year, but since the practice was not completed enough, we changed the content to look back on the last year's practice.
Ryuhisa Matsuura, one of the students, said, “I am worried about whether I will be able to work properly after getting a job. I think that there is a need for medical staff with immediate abilities in the coronary disaster, but I met that expectation. I feel like I can do it."
Akemi Mine said, “I think that the first educator for nursing students is the patient. By not being able to go to the nursing practice, it becomes difficult to think about what kind of nursing is best for the patient. I think it will end up."
If this situation continues, students with little experience in nursing training will be employed next spring, and they will go to the medical field as new nurses.
Mine Minoe said, “I would like the hospital to think of a new employee education program on the premise that there are many students who are not practicing.”