From maternity support worker to nurse assistant
16 of the 36 essential skills of a nurse assistant are already essential for a maternity support worker — about 44% 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.
- 16
- skills carry over
- 20
- would be new
- 44%
- 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
16 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- 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
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- hygiene in a health care setting
- identify abnormalities
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- monitor basic patients signs
- provide basic support to patients
- support nurses
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- work with nursing staff
What would be new
20 skillsEssential for a nurse assistant and not for a maternity support worker. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- 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
- disability care
- first aid
- health care legislation
- implement fundamentals of nursing
- implement nursing care
- nursing principles
- nursing science
- person centred care
- plan nursing care
- promote inclusion
- provide professional care in nursing
- respond to changing situations in health care
- solve problems in healthcare
Other moves from maternity support worker
2 roles- midwife23 skills in common
- healthcare assistant18 skills in common
← maternity support workernurse 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.