As a Healthcare Assistant, you will need to master following:

• accept own accountability
• advise on healthcare users' informed consent
• comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
• contribute to continuity of health care
• convey medical routine information
• ensure safety of healthcare users
• monitor basic patients signs
• promote inclusion
• provide basic support to patients
• use e-health and mobile health technologies
• work in multidisciplinary health teams
• work with nursing staff

More generally, a healthcare assistant is also versed in:

• adhere to organisational guidelines
• apply organisational techniques
• communicate with nursing staff
• comply with legislation related to health care
• deal with emergency care situations
• develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
• educate on the prevention of illness
• empathise with the healthcare user
• follow clinical guidelines
• have computer literacy
• identify abnormalities
• inform policy makers on health-related challenges
• interact with healthcare users
• listen actively
• manage healthcare users' data
• provide health education
• respond to changing situations in health care
• support nurses
• work in a multicultural environment in health care
• work under supervision in care

It also helps to know the following:

• assist in the administration of medication to elderly
• conduct cleaning tasks
• disability care
• distribute meals to patients
• support individuals to adjust to physical disability
• communicate in foreign languages with health service providers
• disability types
• evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves
• geriatrics
• older adults' needs
• sterilization techniques
• use foreign languages for health-related research
• use foreign languages in patient care