Nursing Work is Appealing. That’s Why I Want to Somehow Do It.
In 2025, members of Japan’s postwar baby-boomer generation will fall in the category of later-stage elderly, and approximately one-fourth of its citizenry will be aged 75 or over. This is the so-called “2025 problem.” The nursing business also faces not a few other issues, including a shortage of workers and the plight of elderly who must take care of each other. While summed up in the term “nursing,” the related domain spans a wide range of fields including meals, buildings, devices, and education. Nursing is subject of immediate concern that is closely intertwined with the lives of all.
I too was not interested in nursing at first. My initial contact with it came in my university days, when I became involved in production of ‘Magokoro,’ a free paper that served as a tool of communication with people with dementia, through an entrepreneurial group I had joined. To learn about dementia, I worked part-time at a nursing facility for two years. At that time, the environment was such that I met almost only the users and staff. And when I returned home, the information about nursing that I saw on the news was almost all negative and concerned with unfortunate incidents etc. I was discontent with the closed atmosphere.
At the same time, however, I found the work of nursing itself very interesting, although I saw various issues firsthand. While I was in the university, activities of social contribution quickened due to the influence of the Great East Japan Earthquake. In this situation, I realized that the other students were generally not concerned about nursing issues. I was originally enrolled in the department of commercial science, and I guess that is precisely why I felt that something was wrong and got a sense of mission about it myself.
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