介護福祉士実習教育における倫理教育の課題 : 学生の実習自己評価と倫理観について

Abstract

It has been 20 years since the care worker was created. In Japan, about 548,000 possess a care worker certificate (as of the end of 2006). Of these, 240,000 people work as a professional care workers. At senior community homes, about 40% of the staff possesses care worker certificates. In addition, 20% of private residence care workers possesses a certificate. Care workers form the core of, adn help to develop the places they work in. Recently, there has been a trend where care workers treat their empoyers inappropriately, and in some situations, with abuse. Furthermore, some companies have strained the use of nursing care insurance by asking unreasonable requests. At the root of all of this is not only is the issue of personal ethics, but also the code of ethics for the currently practicing professional. The care workers place of work can be considered that of heavy labor. In this environment, an outsider is better suited to gain an appropriate perspective of that care workers ethics should be, and from this perspective it is easy to see that it is very difficult to supply professional support in such an environment. I think that there may be a limit in entrusting care workers code of activity to only a personal sense of responsibility and independence of will. It is important that ethics education for care workers start in the vocation throughout a care worker's career. In order to support such formative and continuing ethics education, it is necessary to establish an appropriate curriculum and teaching method for such classes. In this thesis, I go over the ethics for professional and the ethic education. I introduce a part of the ethics education for care workers interns. I also grope for a set of ethic topics for care worker students in training courses.