ISCO Specialization 5321.1.1 Nurse Assistant
From Open Risk Manual
Definition
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.
Essential Skills
- Comply With Quality Standards Related To Healthcare Practice
- Monitor Basic Patients Signs
- Nursing Science
- Identify Abnormalities
- Contribute To Continuity Of Health Care
- Apply Sustainability Principles In Health Care
- Interact With Healthcare Users
- Accept Own Accountability
- Hygiene In A Health Care Setting
- Empathise With The Healthcare User
- Apply Health Sciences
- Work In Multidisciplinary Health Teams
- Advise On Healthcare Users' Informed Consent
- Address Problems Critically
- Plan Nursing Care
- Implement Nursing Care
- Communicate With Nursing Staff
- Communicate Effectively In Healthcare
- Provide Basic Support To Patients
- Work With Nursing Staff
- Follow Clinical Guidelines
- Solve Problems In Healthcare
- First Aid
- Listen Actively
- Comply With Legislation Related To Health Care
- Apply Nursing Care In Long-Term Care
- Provide Professional Care In Nursing
- Support Nurses
- Nursing Principles
- Apply Person-Centred Care
- Disability Care
- Implement Fundamentals Of Nursing
- Ensure Safety Of Healthcare Users
- Promote Inclusion
- Person Centred Care
- Health Care Legislation
- Respond To Changing Situations In Health Care
Optional Skills
- Geriatrics
- Paediatrics
- Medicines
- Deal With Emergency Care Situations
- Primary Care
- Disability Types
- Infection Control
- Human Physiology
- Pathology
- Promote A Positive Image Of Nursing
- General Medicine
- Human Anatomy
- Safe Management Of Medicines
- Palliative Care
- Acute Care
- Pharmacology
- Distribute Meals To Patients
- Resuscitation
- Innovation In Nursing
- Use Electronic Health Records In Nursing
- Adolescence Medicine
Alternative Names
- Healthcare Nurse
- State Enrolled Nurse
- Nursing Assistant
- Nurse Auxiliary
- Nursing Auxiliary
- Assistant Nurse
- Auxiliary Nurse
- Assistant Nursing Practitioner
- Sen
