Where a nurse responsible for general care can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a nurse responsible for general care already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Nurses responsible for general care are in charge of promoting and restoring patients` health by providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families. They also supervise assigned team members.
Also known as healthcare nurse, district nurse, learning disability nurse, practice nurse, mental health nurse, adult nurse, healthcarer, ward sister, ward nurse, community staff nurse.
Professionals 106 skills on file 12 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: specialist nurse, 76%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- advanced nurse practitioner 65% covered · difficulty 57
- physiotherapy assistant 59% covered · difficulty 55.1
- specialist pharmacist 54% covered · difficulty 60.3
- dental chairside assistant 54% covered · difficulty 60.5
- orthoptist 54% covered · difficulty 65.1
- pharmacy assistant 52% covered · difficulty 59.8
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A nurse responsible for general care needs 92 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- citizen involvement in healthcare health and welfare
- patient autonomy health and welfare
- adapt leadership styles in healthcare management skills
- adolescence medicine health and welfare
- evidence-based nursing care health and welfare
- initiate life preserving measures assisting and caring
- leadership in nursing health and welfare
- newborn care health and welfare
- person centred care health and welfare
- analyse quality of nurse care information skills
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a nurse responsible for general care does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
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Nurse responsible for general care is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a nurse responsible for general care’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.