In the nursing care field of Japan, The foreign technical intern training program has added and began in November 2017. This program aims to expand knowledge and skills for foreign technical intern trainees from developing countries and also aims to cooperate in to cultivate workers for nursing care in the region where elderly people increase.
Foreign technical intern trainee seems to come from R/D consultation countries, many of whom lack the knowledge of nursing care and do not have sufficient understanding of the elderly. Furthermore, socially and culturally differences from Japan are seen, and the idea of nursing care in daily life is expected to be different.
Under such circumstances, the point of this program is how to make them conscious of nursing care training practice and to learn care-taking skills in Japan. Accepting facility of foreign technical intern trainees should know their background and to be flexible in the process of supporting acceptance.
In this research, it was considered what is the viewpoint of knowing their background from existing literature, and came to the idea of it is important that to understand not only a expert knowledge but also to understand the gap between generic skill and values of social and culture.