From advanced nurse practitioner to nurse assistant
20 of the 36 essential skills of a nurse assistant are already essential for a advanced nurse practitioner — about 56% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 20
- skills carry over
- 16
- would be new
- 56%
- of the target job covered
- 36
- essential skills of a nurse assistant
What a nurse assistant does
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.
What carries over
20 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- apply nursing care in long-term care
- apply person-centred care
- communicate with nursing staff
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- implement fundamentals of nursing
- implement nursing care
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- nursing principles
- nursing science
- plan nursing care
- provide professional care in nursing
- respond to changing situations in health care
- solve problems in healthcare
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- work with nursing staff
What would be new
16 skillsEssential for a nurse assistant and not for a advanced nurse practitioner. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- address problems critically
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply sustainability principles in health care
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- contribute to continuity of health care
- disability care
- first aid
- health care legislation
- hygiene in a health care setting
- identify abnormalities
- monitor basic patients signs
- person centred care
- promote inclusion
- provide basic support to patients
- support nurses
Other moves from advanced nurse practitioner
2 roles- specialist nurse40 skills in common
- nurse responsible for general care38 skills in common
← advanced nurse practitionernurse assistant →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a nurse assistant?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.