Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a nurse assistant can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a nurse assistant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

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.

Also known as healthcare nurse, state enrolled nurse, assistant nurse, nursing auxiliary, auxiliary nurse, assistant nursing practitioner, SEN, nursing assistant, nurse auxiliary.

Service and sales workers 60 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: healthcare assistant, 58%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
healthcare assistant 58% covered nurse responsible for general… 50% covered maternity support worker 48% covered respiratory therapy technician 44% covered clinical perfusion scientist 41% covered nurse assistant You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from nurse assistant, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a nurse assistant already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A nurse assistant needs 36 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • person centred care health and welfare
  • apply sustainability principles in health care assisting and caring
  • identify abnormalities information skills
  • apply nursing care in long-term care assisting and caring
  • communicate with nursing staff communication, collaboration and creativity
  • implement nursing care assisting and caring
  • plan nursing care management skills
  • provide basic support to patients assisting and caring
  • solve problems in healthcare communication, collaboration and creativity
  • work with nursing staff communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a nurse assistant does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Nurse assistant is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a nurse assistant’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.