How difficult is the Japanese nurse qualification examination?

With the better employment of foreign-related nursing majors in recent years, the number of students studying foreign-related nursing majors has increased year by year. In fact, the salary of foreign-related nursing is really better now. Let's get to know the relevant situation.

Tawni from the Philippines has been a nurse in a hospital in Banqiao area of Tokyo for four years. She is 4 1 year-old, graduated from a four-year university in the Philippines, holds the qualification of a nurse in the Philippines, and worked in the pediatrics department of a hospital in the Philippines. In 2009, according to the agreement in the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) signed between Japan and the Philippines that Japan would accept Filipino nurses, Tani worked as a nurse assistant in that hospital while studying Japanese and preparing to take the national nurse qualification examination in Japan. According to the agreement, she must pass the exam in the next three years, or she must return to China.

But she failed in the first three exams. Fortunately, in view of the low pass rate of foreign nurses coming to Japan according to EPA regulations, the Japanese side allowed to extend their stay in Japan for one year. In March this year, Tawni challenged the nurse qualification examination for the fourth time and finally became one of the lucky few.

The results of the national examination for nurses in fiscal year 20 12 released by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on March 25th showed that among the 31/kloc-0 examiners from the Philippines and Indonesia who came to Japan according to EPA regulations, only 30 were qualified, with a passing rate of only 9.6%, which was lower than that of1.3% in the previous year. In the same period, the overall pass rate including Japanese was 80.

According to the EPA signed with Indonesia and the Philippines, Japan began to accept nurses from the two countries to study in Japan in 2008 and 2009 respectively. However, most Indonesian and Filipino nurses who came to Japan for further study failed to pass the national nurse qualification examination in Japan within the prescribed time limit and were forced to "work" in Japanese hospitals for two or three years before returning to China. So far, among more than 600 Indonesian and Filipino nurses who came to Japan, only 96 have obtained the qualification of Japanese nurses.

Language barrier is an important reason for the low pass rate, and Chinese characters are the biggest difficulty, such as "bedsore" and "swallowing by mistake", which is too difficult for foreigners who are not in the Chinese character circle. The Japanese government has previously taken special preferential measures to reduce the difficulty of these people's examinations, including extending the examination time and marking the Chinese characters appearing in the examination papers with pseudonyms, but the effect is not obvious.

Tani said that her nursing experience in the Philippines was basically useless in the future. Common Japanese names such as "cognitive impairment" and "Kawasaki disease" have never been heard in the Philippines, and Japan's complicated medical insurance system is also difficult to learn, so that it failed the exam for three consecutive years.