Occupation Atlasnurse assistant
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/87d0795a-d41f-47ee-979f-0ab7d73836e7
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.
Compare with another occupationCompare with nurse responsible for general care
Job Zone
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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
SRCSocial · Realistic · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social5.70
- R Realistic4.58
- C Conventional4.24
- I Investigative2.72
- E Enterprising1.77
- A Artistic1.00
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Nursing Assistants (31-1131.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (36)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- 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
- 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
- disability care
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- first aid
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care legislation
- hygiene in a health care setting
- identify abnormalities
- implement fundamentals of nursing
- implement nursing care
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- monitor basic patients signs
- nursing principles
- nursing science
- person centred care
- plan nursing care
- promote inclusion
- provide basic support to patients
- provide professional care in nursing
- respond to changing situations in health care
- solve problems in healthcare
- support nurses
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- work with nursing staff
Optional (24)
- acute care
- adolescence medicine
- deal with emergency care situations
- disability types
- distribute meals to patients
- follow-up patients with heart attack
- general medicine
- geriatrics
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- infection control
- innovation in nursing
- medicines
- paediatrics
- palliative care
- pathology
- perform diagnostic testing for allergies
- perform venous cannulation
- pharmacology
- primary care
- promote a positive image of nursing
- resuscitation
- safe management of medicines
- use electronic health records in nursing
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 36 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
nurse responsible for general care
30 shared · 62 more of its ownperson centred care, apply sustainability principles in health care, apply nursing care in long-term care, implement nursing care
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advanced nurse practitioner
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healthcare assistant
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paramedic in emergency responses
18 shared · 56 more of its ownmonitor basic patients signs, hygiene in a health care setting, advise on healthcare users' informed consent, respond to changing situations in health care
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orthoptist
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speech and language therapist
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