The health professionals working in HCA roles are known as nursing assistants, nursing auxiliaries or auxiliary nurses. They can form a vital part of a nursing team in a hospital, doctor’s surgery or the wider community in a residential care home – looking after the elderly or in a domestic setting looking after someone who is disabled or terminally ill.

They are trained to work with infants, children, and young people and support registered nurses in delivering nursing care.

The Roles and Responsibilities of Health Care Assistant

• Helping the patients to wash, shower and dress properly
• Serving and assisting the patients in eating food
• Changing and making beds
• Turning bed-ridden patients and undergoing treatment to avoid pressure sores
• Counselling and talking to the patients to boost their confidence and feel
• Helping patients to move around.
• Giving out bedpans, and helping patients to the toilet
• Make sure that the ward and patients’ rooms are neat and clean
• Keeping supplies and equipment in order
• Taking and recording patient observations such as temperature, pulse, and breathing.

Apart from staying with the patients the health care assistant also extends their services to the doctors and surgeons.

The roles are listed below:-

• Sterilize surgical equipment.
• Conduct health checkups
• Re-stock consulting rooms.
• Process samples in the lab.
• Collect the blood samples.
• Do health promotion or health education work

With an increasing number of people suffering from various types of disorders, the role of health care Assistants increases to help the patients recover from the diseases and enjoy a healthy lifestyle.

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If you have a passion for healthcare and a commitment to improving the lives of those in need, we would love to hear from you. Staff Giant is not just about filling roles; we’re about building a community of healthcare professionals who are dedicated to making a difference.

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