Development of a Multilingual Web Dictionary of Caregiving Terms for Diversification of Foreign Care Workers

Abstract

The expansion of credentialing frameworks has led to the diversification and multi-nationalization of foreign care workers. Even among caregivers who are not required to take the state examination of certified care workers, it is highly likely that a certain number will take the examination in the future. This also means that there is a growing need for multilingual Japanese-language nursing materials. In response to this current situation, the author's research group decided to develop a new multilingual web dictionary of nursing terminology in four languages (in the future, six languages).