Description
Nursing auxiliaries and assistants assist doctors, nurses and other health professionals in caring for the sick and injured within hospitals, homes, clinics and the wider community.Main Tasks
- Performs basic clinical tasks such as taking patients’ temperature and pulse, weighing and measuring, performing urine tests and extracting blood samples;
- Prepares patient for examination and treatment;
- Distributes and serves food, assists patients in feeding and prepares snacks and hot drinks;
- Assists patients in washing, dressing, toiletry activities and general mobility;
- Changes bed linen, makes beds and tidies wards.
Qualifications
There are no formal academic entry requirements. Off- and on-the-job training is provided. NVQs/ SVQs in Care are available at Levels 2 and 3.What Nursing auxiliaries and assistants studied in higher education
Occupation | Percentage Value |
---|---|
(C9) Others in biological sciences | 3 |
(L4) Social policy | 2 |
(B2) Pharmacology, toxicology & pharmacy | 1 |
(L3) Sociology | 2 |
(C1) Biology | 5 |
(F1) Chemistry | 1 |
(C8) Psychology | 23 |
(Y0) Combined | 1 |
(A3) Clinical medicine | 1 |
(C7) Molecular biology, biophysics & biochemistry | 3 |
(Q3) English studies | 1 |
(B7) Nursing | 11 |
(M2) Law by topic | 1 |
(B9) Others in subjects allied to medicine | 7 |
(B1) Anatomy, physiology & pathology | 4 |
(F4) Forensic & archaeological sciences | 1 |
(B4) Nutrition | 1 |
(N1) Business studies | 1 |
(X3) Academic studies in education | 3 |
(L5) Social work | 14 |
(C6) Sport & exercise science | 5 |
(V1) History by period | 1 |
(L6) Anthropology | 1 |