nurse assistant
Nurse assistants provide basic patient care under direction of nursing staff. They perform duties such as feed, bathe, dress, groom, move patients or change linens and may transfer or transport patients.
Also called: healthcare nurse, state enrolled nurse, nursing assistant, nurse auxiliary, nursing auxiliary, assistant nurse, auxiliary nurse, assistant nursing practitioner
- 36
- essential skills
- 24
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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- ISCO-08 group
Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
- nurse responsible for general careWhat changes?30 skills in common
- specialist nurseWhat changes?23 skills in common
- advanced nurse practitionerWhat changes?20 skills in common
- healthcare assistant19 skills in common
- paramedic in emergency responses18 skills in common
- orthoptist17 skills in common
- speech and language therapist17 skills in common
- maternity support worker16 skills in common
Essential skills
36- accept own accountability
- address problems critically
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply nursing care in long-term care
- apply person-centred care
- apply sustainability principles in health care
- communicate in healthcare
- 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
- disability care
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- first aid
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care legislation
- hygiene in a health care setting
- identify abnormalities
- implement fundamentals of nursing
- implement nursing care
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- monitor basic patients signs
- nursing principles
- nursing science
- person centred care
- plan nursing care
- promote inclusion
- provide basic support to patients
- provide professional care in nursing
- respond to changing situations in health care
- solve problems in healthcare
- support nurses
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- work with nursing staff
Optional skills
24- acute care
- adolescence medicine
- deal with emergency care situations
- disability types
- distribute meals to patients
- follow-up patients with heart attack
- general medicine
- geriatrics
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- infection control
- innovation in nursing
- medicines
- paediatrics
- palliative care
- pathology
- perform diagnostic testing for allergies
- perform venous cannulation
- pharmacology
- primary care
- promote a positive image of nursing
- resuscitation
- safe management of medicines
- use electronic health records in nursing
Definition and skills from ESCO, published by the European Commission. Source concept
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