2021 Volume 23 Issue 2 Pages 67-80
It is expected that the number of nursing students using Japanese as a second language (JSL) will increase in the future and as a result the number of students who have difficult in writing nursing practice records will increase. This paper first looks at some domestic surveys and literature reviews in English-speaking countries and points out the necessity of assisting students with writing. Because there are few studies on the linguistic aspects of nursing practice records and it is difficult to apply these studies, our first step was to analyze the vocabulary used in nursing practice records. We collected books on how to write nursing practice records which include model records for different fields of nursing such as pediatric nursing and adult nursing. Models for writing assessments, nursing care plans, implementation and evaluation reports, and summaries were analyzed, and aspects of vocabulary contained in these four types of records were investigated using frequency and characteristics based on the log-likelihood ratio as indices. The results showed that the distribution of parts of speech differed according to the type of record and the items to be filled in. In some items, nouns were used frequently, while in other items, nouns, postpositional particles, verbs, and auxiliary verbs were used evenly. We also found that typically used words differed according to the type of record and the item.
