Original title: pension services launch a new 'national standard' source: Economic Daily
On October 16, the Ministry of human resources and social security and the Ministry of civil affairs jointly promulgated the national vocational skills standard for elderly care nurses (2019 version), which clearly divides elderly care nurses into five levels: Level 5 / Junior worker, level 4 / intermediate worker, level 3 / senior worker, level 2 / technician and level 1 / senior technician.
Elderly care nurses are engaged in life care and nursing services for the elderly. They are the main providers of elderly care services. They are an important support for the elderly care service system. They are an important force to solve family problems, alleviate social problems and promote social harmony. However, at this stage, the team of elderly care nurses in China is facing the development dilemma of shortage of quantity, uneven personnel quality, limited professional ability and high turnover rate.
'the national vocational skill standard for elderly care nurses is the basic basis for guiding the training of elderly care nurses, identifying the level of vocational skills and standardizing the professional behavior of elderly care nurses. ' According to the person in charge of the Department of vocational capacity building of the Ministry of human resources and social security, the national vocational skills standard for elderly care nurses was promulgated and implemented in 2002 and revised for the first time in 2011. Since 2012, new demands for elderly care services have been emerging in China, and elderly care has shown a new development trend. In particular, 249 million elderly people and 40 million disabled and semi disabled elderly people and their family care needs are increasing, while the existing elderly care practitioners are only 300000, which is far from meeting the needs of elderly care services.
In this regard, the relevant person in charge of the elderly care service department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs said that in order to solve the talent bottleneck faced by the development of the elderly care service industry and build a team of elderly care nurses with sufficient quantity and excellent quality, the national vocational skill standard for elderly care nurses (2019 Edition) has made some modifications. For example, expand the team of elderly care nurses through 'one rise, one fall and one transformation'. " "One liter" means that the standard increases the professional skill level of elderly care nurses from 4 to 5, and adds the level of "first level / Senior Technician" to unblock the career development channel of elderly care nurses. " "One reduction" refers to the reduction of the requirements for the work content, skill requirements and relevant knowledge of level 5 / junior workers; At the same time, the 'general education level' will be adjusted from 'junior high school graduation' to 'no educational requirements'. " I "transformation" refers to the provision that when nurses and domestic attendants apply for the recognition of professional skill level, their working years can be regarded as the working years of elderly care work according to the correlation between other occupations and elderly care nurses, so as to provide a path for the transformation and development of relevant professional employees into elderly care nurses.
The new 'national standard' has added home-based and community-based elderly care service skill requirements in all occupational levels of elderly care nurses, improved the on-site service ability of elderly care nurses, and adapted to the huge demand for home and community care; Add "fire safety" in "basic knowledge", improve the fire prevention and control ability of elderly care nurses, and improve the safety management level of elderly care services; In order to respond to and meet the social needs for the care of the elderly with dementia, new care points and communication skills for the elderly with dementia were added. At the same time, at the level of level II / technician and level I / senior technician, the work contents of "ability assessment" and "quality management" are added to improve the management ability of high-level elderly care nurses.
"We should ensure that by the end of 2022, 10000 directors of nursing homes, 2 million elderly care workers and 100000 full-time and part-time elderly social workers will be trained to effectively improve the sustainable development ability of elderly care services." The relevant person in charge of the elderly care service department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs said that the Ministry of civil affairs will speed up the training of elderly care service talents and enhance the professional attraction of elderly care nurses by carrying out actions to improve the training of elderly care service talents, building policies and measures to encourage the employment of elderly care nurses, strengthening the information credit management of elderly care nurses, and establishing a commendation mechanism for elderly care nurses.