Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

healthcare assistanttonurse assistant

A healthcare assistant already meets 48% of what the nurse assistant role asks for. The move turns on 16 required skills not yet in the profile.

From healthcare assistant
48%
Overlap1
To nurse assistant
24 Skills carried over
16 Required, not held
62.6 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

48%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

62.6/ 100

1 Share of the nurse assistant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the healthcare assistant profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.

Why

Why this move works

A nurse assistant role treats 20 of its required skills as things a healthcare assistant already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • accept own accountability
  • advise on healthcare users' informed consent
  • 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

What stands in the way is 16 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 24 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A nurse assistant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a healthcare assistant background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held identify abnormalities information skills
  • already held communicate with nursing staff communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held provide basic support to patients assisting and caring
  • already held work with nursing staff communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held support nurses communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held distribute meals to patients assisting and caring

All 24 carried skills, including the 20 the nurse assistant role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 36 missing skills fall into 9 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 assisting and caring 6 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held apply nursing care in long-term care required
  • required, not held apply person-centred care required
  • required, not held implement nursing care required
  • required, not held apply sustainability principles in health care required
  • required, not held implement fundamentals of nursing required
  • required, not held provide professional care in nursing required
  • optional, not held follow-up patients with heart attack optional
  • optional, not held perform venous cannulation optional
02 health and welfare 4 required, 13 supplementary
  • required, not held person centred care required
  • required, not held first aid required
  • required, not held nursing principles required
  • required, not held nursing science required
  • optional, not held acute care optional
  • optional, not held palliative care optional
  • optional, not held adolescence medicine optional
  • optional, not held general medicine optional
  • optional, not held human anatomy optional
  • optional, not held human physiology optional
  • optional, not held infection control optional
  • optional, not held innovation in nursing optional
  • optional, not held medicines optional
  • optional, not held paediatrics optional
  • optional, not held pathology optional
  • optional, not held primary care optional
  • optional, not held resuscitation optional
03 communication, collaboration and creativity 3 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held solve problems in healthcare required
  • required, not held address problems critically required
  • required, not held communicate in healthcare required
  • optional, not held promote a positive image of nursing optional
04 services 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held hygiene in a health care setting required
  • optional, not held safe management of medicines optional
05 business, administration and law 1 required
  • required, not held health care legislation required
06 management skills 1 required
  • required, not held plan nursing care required

3 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a nurse assistant role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 24 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held accept own accountability skill
  • already held advise on healthcare users' informed consent skill
  • already held communicate with nursing staff skill
  • already held comply with legislation related to health care skill
  • already held comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice skill
  • already held contribute to continuity of health care skill
  • already held disability care knowledge
  • already held empathise with the healthcare user skill
  • already held ensure safety of healthcare users skill
  • already held follow clinical guidelines skill
  • already held identify abnormalities skill
  • already held interact with healthcare users skill
  • already held listen actively skill
  • already held monitor basic patients signs skill
  • already held promote inclusion skill
  • already held provide basic support to patients skill
  • already held respond to changing situations in health care skill
  • already held support nurses skill
  • already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
  • already held work with nursing staff skill
  • already held deal with emergency care situations skill
  • already held disability types knowledge
  • already held distribute meals to patients skill
  • already held geriatrics knowledge
The 3 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 information skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held perform diagnostic testing for allergies optional
08 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held pharmacology optional
09 working with computers 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held use electronic health records in nursing optional
20 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held acute care optional
  • optional, not held follow-up patients with heart attack optional
  • optional, not held palliative care optional
  • optional, not held perform diagnostic testing for allergies optional
  • optional, not held perform venous cannulation optional
  • optional, not held safe management of medicines optional
  • optional, not held use electronic health records in nursing optional
  • optional, not held adolescence medicine optional
  • optional, not held general medicine optional
  • optional, not held human anatomy optional
  • optional, not held human physiology optional
  • optional, not held infection control optional
  • optional, not held innovation in nursing optional
  • optional, not held medicines optional
  • optional, not held paediatrics optional
  • optional, not held pathology optional
  • optional, not held pharmacology optional
  • optional, not held primary care optional
  • optional, not held promote a positive image of nursing optional
  • optional, not held resuscitation optional
22 held skills the nurse assistant role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role adhere to organisational guidelines skill
  • not needed by the target role apply organisational techniques skill
  • not needed by the target role assist in the administration of medication to elderly skill
  • not needed by the target role communicate in foreign languages with health service providers skill
  • not needed by the target role convey medical routine information skill
  • not needed by the target role develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship skill
  • not needed by the target role educate on the prevention of illness skill
  • not needed by the target role evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves skill
  • not needed by the target role have computer literacy skill
  • not needed by the target role inform policy makers on health-related challenges skill
  • not needed by the target role manage healthcare users' data skill
  • not needed by the target role older adults' needs knowledge
  • not needed by the target role perform cleaning duties skill
  • not needed by the target role provide health education skill
  • not needed by the target role sterilization techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role support individuals to adjust to physical disability skill
  • not needed by the target role use e-health and mobile health technologies skill
  • not needed by the target role use foreign languages for health-related research skill
  • not needed by the target role use foreign languages in patient care skill
  • not needed by the target role use technical equipment for sterilisation skill
  • not needed by the target role work in a multicultural environment in health care skill
  • not needed by the target role work under supervision in care skill
21 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held person centred care required
  • required, not held first aid required
  • required, not held health care legislation required
  • required, not held hygiene in a health care setting required
  • required, not held nursing principles required
  • required, not held nursing science required
  • optional, not held acute care optional
  • optional, not held palliative care optional
  • optional, not held safe management of medicines optional
  • optional, not held adolescence medicine optional
  • optional, not held general medicine optional
  • optional, not held human anatomy optional
  • optional, not held human physiology optional
  • optional, not held infection control optional
  • optional, not held innovation in nursing optional
  • optional, not held medicines optional
  • optional, not held paediatrics optional
  • optional, not held pathology optional
  • optional, not held pharmacology optional
  • optional, not held primary care optional
  • optional, not held resuscitation optional
Index

Other moves recorded from healthcare assistant

Full index of moves from healthcare assistant

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.