A change of Japanese Nurses' View of Indonesian Nursing Candidates Based on an Economic Partnership Agreement

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This study investigates how Japanese nurses feel about working with foreign nurses based on an economic partnership agreement, before and after they start working with them and give them support.Questionnaires on acceptance of, and actual relationships between 22 Japanese nurses working with two Indonesian nursing candidates before starting the work, were distributed two times:, 7 months after starting the work, and again 26 months later.Japanese nurses' acceptance of foreign nurses showed a positive increase at both 7 months and 26 months after starting to work together.In addition, throughout the entire training period, foreign nurses were given little opportunity to actually do, tasks such as measuring vital signs.Japanese nurses had a positive change of heart toward accepting foreign nurses after they started working together and this positive attitude was confirmed in subsequent testing long after their joint work began.In addition, foreign nurses were working in an environment where it was difficult to learn nursing techniques.For this reason, Japanese nurses had little opportunity to work alongside the foreign nurses.Japanese hospitals need to improve the work environment for them, and provide guidelines to more easily ensure foreign nurses can assist in the demands of actual nursing.