台灣即將邁入高齡社會，並估計於2025年老年人口將超過20% 成為超高齡社會。
以目前長照的問題之一是本國籍照護人力明顯不足，依賴大量進口勞力來支撐。而外籍看護的語言能力訓練不足，以致在臨床的照護上發生語言障礙無法正確執行照護工作，危急長者的生命健康；外籍看護初到台灣陌生國境語言文化衝突、思鄉情緒等，亦引發不少社會問題。有鑑於此，本研究希望能設計發展出關於看護專業華語教材，希冀對上述現象能有些許的助益。本研究的研究目的與問題，為(1).探討外籍看護士學習者學習華語的需求為何；(2).訂出長照華語主題式教材的設計、編寫原；(3).利用內容分析方法總結長照華語教材設計的目的與課程內容大網；(4).最後編寫出本教材的第一課完整內容作為本研究教材範例。
研究者認為長照華語主題式教材設計編寫原則為： 一、肯定外籍看護的知識經驗與專業技能經驗。二、重視華人社會文化與外籍看護國家的文化差異。三、教材內儘量呈現以關懷、互信互愛、仁義、樂觀的正向思想。四、華語語言使用的在地化與普遍性。五、教材主題內容緊扣外籍看護工作內容，加強針對性與提升學習效益。
Taiwan is advancing into an aged society. According to estimation, by the year 2025, the population of old people will surpass 20% of the total population thus causing Taiwan to become an aged society.
With regards to the problem of long term care, one of the key problems for care is that carers of Taiwan nationality were lacking. Consequently, there is an over reliance on imported foreign labor. However, the lack of language training of foreign nurses causes barriers to care in not being able to perform their duties in clinical situations. Such lack of language training would ultimately endanger the life and health of elderly patients. Furthermore, when foreign carers first arrive in Taiwan, conflicts and social problems would arise from having to meet the challenges of living in a foreign country and culture such as Taiwan and homesickness. In view of this, this research hopes to design and develop Mandarin Chinese language teaching material for such specialized nurses in order to offer some solutions to the problems mentioned above. Research objectives of this research are (1)to investigate the needs of foreign nurses in terms of learning Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan; (2) to outline principles underlying the writing and design of the training nurses Chinese material; (3) through a content analysis approach to summarize the aims of a syllabus which aims at the specialist training of Chinese language of foreign nurses; (4) lastly a sample chapter is presented as an illustration of a sample chapter from such teaching material.
The principles of writing Mandarin teaching materials on long term care put forward by the author are: (1) to acknowledge the experience and specialized knowledge and techniques of foreign nurses; (2) to pay attention to the culture differences that exist between foreign nurses’ native cultures and the Chinese culture. (3) As much as possible, the teaching material should demonstrate how a compassionate, mutually caring, possible thinking teaching material can be conceived and executed. (4) Teaching material should also be designed to take into account of localized language and language use. (5) Topics chosen for the material should closely follow and reflect the content and nature of the work that foreign nurses do so as to strengthen the relevance of the material and increase the overall benefit to this area of study.
