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IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2010DESIGNING AN E-LEARNING SYSTEM TO SUPPORTRE-EMPLOYMENT OF POTENTIAL NURSESYukie Majima*, Yumiko Nakamura**, Yasuko Maekawa**, Hiroko Makino**,Yukari Nakajima** and Mizuko Hiramatsu***Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuencho, Naka, Sakai, Osaka, Japan**School of Nursing, Osaka Prefecture University, 3-7-30 Habikino, Habikino-city, Osaka, JapanABSTRACTThe shortage of nursing personnel has been a growing national concern in Japan because of the progression of the agingpopulation concomitantly with a low birth rate. Consequently, we developed an e-learning system to support reemploymentof those who have a nursing qualification but who are not engaged in nursing service employment (potentialnursing personnel). Major features of this system are: 1) it can recommend certain contents from over 100 learningcontents according to when potential nursing personnel were separated from service and according to medicaldepartments in which they wish to be re-employed; and 2) it can answer questions posed by learners.KEYWORDSPotential nursing personnel, E-learning system, Recommendation, Nursing practice example, Mentor assistance1. INTRODUCTIONIn Japan, after medical fees were revised in 2006 with the requirement that “The basic fee for hospitalizationin a general ward is determined based on seven patients for one nurse”, the demand for nursing staff hasincreased further. This has engendered the concentration of new graduate nursing personnel in some largehospitals and the shortage of nursing staff in other facilities. As a strategy to mitigate that severe shortage ofnursing personnel, it would appear useful to support re-employment of those who have a nursingqualification but who are not engaged in nursing services (potential nursing personnel). However, it isextremely difficult to locate potential nurses, who are estimated as up to 550 thousand in Japan.Our previous study 1) suggested that unemployed nurses evaluated practical nursing skills more highlythan nursing supervisors and they felt a lower need for training and a greater need for the items of latestinformation and handling equipment. This study then developed an e-learning system to reveal potentialnursing personnel and to support training for their re-employment using the internet. The e-learning contentsare consisted of their learning needs. We report on that system.2. OUTLINE OF THE E-LEARNING SYSTEM TO SUPPORT RE-EMPLOYMENT OF POTENTIAL NURSESA major feature of this system is to recommend certain contents from over 100 contents to learn nursingpractice examples and nursing skills according to when potential nursing personnel are separated fromservice and which medical departments in which they wish to be re-employed. The configuration of thesystem is as described below.403