nurse assistanttohealthcare assistant
A nurse assistant already meets 58% of what the healthcare assistant role asks for. The move turns on 12 required skills not yet in the profile.
58%
50.7/ 100
1 Share of the healthcare assistant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the nurse assistant profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A healthcare assistant role treats 20 of its required skills as things a nurse assistant already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- accept own accountability
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- 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
What stands in the way is 12 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 24 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A healthcare assistant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a nurse assistant background worth leading with.
- already held identify abnormalities information skills
- already held communicate with nursing staff communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held provide basic support to patients assisting and caring
- already held work with nursing staff communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held support nurses communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held distribute meals to patients assisting and caring
All 24 carried skills, including the 20 the healthcare assistant role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 22 missing skills fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held convey medical routine information required
- required, not held develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship required
- required, not held educate on the prevention of illness required
- required, not held inform policy makers on health-related challenges required
- required, not held provide health education required
- required, not held work in a multicultural environment in health care required
- required, not held work under supervision in care required
- optional, not held communicate in foreign languages with health service providers optional
- optional, not held use foreign languages for health-related research optional
- optional, not held use foreign languages in patient care optional
- required, not held use e-health and mobile health technologies required
- required, not held have computer literacy required
- required, not held adhere to organisational guidelines required
- optional, not held assist in the administration of medication to elderly optional
- optional, not held support individuals to adjust to physical disability optional
- required, not held apply organisational techniques required
- optional, not held evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves optional
- required, not held manage healthcare users' data required
- optional, not held older adults' needs optional
- optional, not held sterilization techniques optional
2 further areas in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a healthcare assistant role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 convey medical routine information skill · occupation specific
- 02 use e-health and mobile health technologies skill · sector specific
- 03 adhere to organisational guidelines skill · cross sector
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 24 skills that carry over
- already held accept own accountability skill
- already held advise on healthcare users' informed consent skill
- already held communicate with nursing staff skill
- already held comply with legislation related to health care skill
- already held comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice skill
- already held contribute to continuity of health care skill
- already held deal with emergency care situations skill
- already held empathise with the healthcare user skill
- already held ensure safety of healthcare users skill
- already held follow clinical guidelines skill
- already held identify abnormalities skill
- already held interact with healthcare users skill
- already held listen actively skill
- already held monitor basic patients signs skill
- already held promote inclusion skill
- already held provide basic support to patients skill
- already held respond to changing situations in health care skill
- already held support nurses skill
- already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
- already held work with nursing staff skill
- already held disability care knowledge
- already held disability types knowledge
- already held distribute meals to patients skill
- already held geriatrics knowledge
The 2 learning areas not shown above
- optional, not held perform cleaning duties optional
- optional, not held use technical equipment for sterilisation optional
10 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held assist in the administration of medication to elderly optional
- optional, not held support individuals to adjust to physical disability optional
- optional, not held communicate in foreign languages with health service providers optional
- optional, not held evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves optional
- optional, not held older adults' needs optional
- optional, not held perform cleaning duties optional
- optional, not held sterilization techniques optional
- optional, not held use foreign languages for health-related research optional
- optional, not held use foreign languages in patient care optional
- optional, not held use technical equipment for sterilisation optional
36 held skills the healthcare assistant role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role acute care knowledge
- not needed by the target role address problems critically skill
- not needed by the target role adolescence medicine knowledge
- not needed by the target role apply nursing care in long-term care skill
- not needed by the target role apply person-centred care skill
- not needed by the target role apply sustainability principles in health care skill
- not needed by the target role communicate in healthcare skill
- not needed by the target role first aid knowledge
- not needed by the target role follow-up patients with heart attack skill
- not needed by the target role general medicine knowledge
- not needed by the target role health care legislation knowledge
- not needed by the target role human anatomy knowledge
- not needed by the target role human physiology knowledge
- not needed by the target role hygiene in a health care setting knowledge
- not needed by the target role implement fundamentals of nursing skill
- not needed by the target role implement nursing care skill
- not needed by the target role infection control knowledge
- not needed by the target role innovation in nursing knowledge
- not needed by the target role medicines knowledge
- not needed by the target role nursing principles knowledge
- not needed by the target role nursing science knowledge
- not needed by the target role paediatrics knowledge
- not needed by the target role palliative care knowledge
- not needed by the target role pathology knowledge
- not needed by the target role perform diagnostic testing for allergies skill
- not needed by the target role perform venous cannulation skill
- not needed by the target role person centred care knowledge
- not needed by the target role pharmacology knowledge
- not needed by the target role plan nursing care skill
- not needed by the target role primary care knowledge
- not needed by the target role promote a positive image of nursing skill
- not needed by the target role provide professional care in nursing skill
- not needed by the target role resuscitation knowledge
- not needed by the target role safe management of medicines knowledge
- not needed by the target role solve problems in healthcare skill
- not needed by the target role use electronic health records in nursing skill
2 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- optional, not held older adults' needs optional
- optional, not held sterilization techniques optional
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.