Abstract
Introduction: According to Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between Indonesia and Japanese governments, Japanese government plans to recruit Indonesian nurses and caregivers to fulfill the demand of those positions at the hospital and health centers. However, to be a qualified worker in Japan, one has to pass a national examination that is conducted by the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare for a license of a registered nurse within 3 or 4 years of working as a nurse or caregivers, respectively. Method: Having considered that matter, a comparative study of the background of educational systems in Indonesia and Japan is discussed in this paper, with particular reference to the Diploma 3 nursing program. Result: There is no specific difference between Indonesian and Japanese nursing educational systems. Discussion: However, current health condition of the countries remains as the focus of the curriculums where Indonesian nursing education is focusing on communicable disease and surgery nursing, whereas Japanese is focusing on gerontology and chronic disease nursing. In case of qualification method, Japanese nurses should undertake national board examination to be a qualified nurse. On the other hand, there is no national board examination for Indonesian nurses.
Highlights
According to the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the Indonesian and Japanese governments, the Japanese government plans to recruit Indonesian nurses and caregivers to fulfill the demands of those positions at hospitals and health centres
Japan and Indonesia have been working towards an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), a comprehensive bilateral economic agreement that will include liberalisation of trade in goods and services, as well as cooperation in the fields of investment, competition policies and people movement (Purnama, 2007)
This paper describes Indonesian and Japanese nursing educational backgrounds in order to figure out a general description of their educational systems
Summary
Japan and Indonesia have been working towards an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), a comprehensive bilateral economic agreement that will include liberalisation of trade in goods and services, as well as cooperation in the fields of investment, competition policies and people movement (Purnama, 2007). Due to inappropriate health care and worker distribution systems, the Indonesian labour market can only accept a minimum number of nurses (Suwandono et al, 2005). This agreement brings some benefits to Jurnal Ners Vol 3 No 2 Oktober 2008-Maret 2009: 153-159. Implementation of long-term care insurance encourages the place for treating and rehabilitating patients with chronic illnesses to be shifted from hospitals to facilities for long-term care, home medical care and visiting nursing (Sawada, 1997) Having considered those conditions, through the EPA agreement, the Japanese government has opened the labour market for foreign nurses as stipulated in the memorandum of understanding (MOFA, 2008). This comparison focused on a curriculum that was stipulated by government law for a Diploma 3 (D-3) degree of nursing education
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