healthcare assistant
ISCO: 5321. Skills: 46. Essential: 32.
Essential skills
- 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
Supporting skills
- 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