healthcare assistant
Healthcare assistants work in teams of nurses within the occupational fields of nursing, social care, clinical care and care of people of all age-groups. Healthcare assistants assist in the promotion and restoration of patients' health by providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends and families.
Also called: maternity care assistant, health care assistant, primary healthcare assistant, resident care assistant, elderly care assistant, resident healthcare assistant, patient care assistant, assistant healthcarer
- 32
- essential skills
- 14
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Essential skills
32- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply organisational techniques
- communicate with nursing staff
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- convey medical routine information
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- have computer literacy
- identify abnormalities
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- monitor basic patients signs
- promote inclusion
- provide basic support to patients
- provide health education
- respond to changing situations in health care
- support nurses
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- work under supervision in care
- work with nursing staff
Optional skills
14- assist in the administration of medication to elderly
- communicate in foreign languages with health service providers
- disability care
- disability types
- distribute meals to patients
- evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves
- geriatrics
- older adults' needs
- perform cleaning duties
- sterilization techniques
- support individuals to adjust to physical disability
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care
- use technical equipment for sterilisation
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