Japanese and Workplace Preparation Checklist for Care Workers

Check Japanese used in care work, records, handovers, and workplace rules.

This checklist is for foreign residents working as care workers. Please also confirm your job duties and workplace rules with your workplace or support staff.

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1. Check greetings and how to speak to care usersCheck greetings for the morning and when leaving, and phrases used during meals, bathing, moving, and resting. Please confirm polite and appropriate wording with your workplace.

SpeakingRequired

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2. Check words for body parts and painCheck words for body parts such as head, chest, lower back, and legs, and words for physical condition such as pain, difficulty breathing, nausea, and dizziness.

ConditionRequired

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3. Check words often used in care workCheck words often used in daily work, such as meals, toileting, bathing, changing clothes, moving, and watching over. Write down words you do not understand and ask about them.

Care termsRequired

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4. Practice how to ask when you are not sureCheck phrases you can use right away, such as “Could you please say that again?”, “May I do this?”, and “Where should I record this?”

QuestionsRequired

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5. Check words used in handoversCheck how to explain what you heard from the previous staff member, what you need to tell the next staff member, what changed, and what needs attention.

HandoverRequired

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6. Check how and where to write recordsCheck when, where, and what to write. Follow your workplace rules for recording the care user’s condition, meals, toileting, health changes, and other information.

RecordsRequired

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7. Check when to report and who to report toCheck who to report to, when, and how if there is a fall, injury, change in condition, concern about medicine, or a concern raised by a care user. Do not make medical decisions by yourself.

ReportingRequired

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8. Check what you may and may not doCheck with your workplace or support staff what care work you may do, what you should not do alone yet, and what work requires qualifications or experience.

RulesRequired

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9. Make time to study Japanese for care workWrite down new words from work, expressions used in records, and phrases for speaking to care users, and make time to review them little by little each week.

Study

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