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

• accept own accountability
• advise on healthcare users' informed consent
• apply nursing care in long-term care
• apply person-centred care
• comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
• contribute to continuity of health care
• disability care
• ensure safety of healthcare users
• implement nursing care
• monitor basic patients signs
• person centred care
• plan nursing care
• promote inclusion
• provide basic support to patients
• solve problems in healthcare
• work in multidisciplinary health teams
• work with nursing staff

More generally, a nurse assistant is also versed in:

• address problems critically
• apply sustainability principles in health care
• communicate in healthcare
• communicate with nursing staff
• comply with legislation related to health care
• empathise with the healthcare user
• first aid
• follow clinical guidelines
• health care legislation
• hygiene in a health care setting
• identify abnormalities
• implement fundamentals of nursing
• interact with healthcare users
• listen actively
• nursing principles
• nursing science
• provide professional care in nursing
• respond to changing situations in health care
• support nurses

It also helps to know the following:

• acute care
• distribute meals to patients
• palliative care
• perform venous cannulation
• safe management of medicines
• use electronic health records in nursing
• adolescence medicine
• deal with emergency care situations
• disability types
• general medicine
• geriatrics
• human anatomy
• human physiology
• infection control
• innovation in nursing
• medicines
• paediatrics
• pathology
• pharmacology
• primary care
• promote a positive image of nursing
• resuscitation