Healthcare Assistant Job Descriptions

Health assistants (also known as nursing assistants and nursing auxiliaries), support professionals with medical care every day of patients, either in hospitals or the homes of the patients.
As a medical assistant of his duties may include:
· Patients Help wash or shower
· Serve food and, if necessary, helping patients to eat
· Make and change beds · Patients who are confined to turn the bed to prevent pressure ulcers
· Talk with patients to help them feel less lonely or anxious
· Assist patients with mobility problems to move
• Help patients to go to the bathroom, give and collect wedges
· Make the neighborhood or patients at home is in order, and supplies and equipment are in place
• Take and record temperature, pulse and respiration.

Key Skills
· A friendly and caring personality
· The ability to relate to people from a wide variety of backgrounds
· Tact and sensitivity, particularly when helping patients with personal care
· A respectful approach to patients
· The ability to work on your own initiative and as part of a team
· Patience and a sense of humour.