Health Care Assistant

Health Care Assistant is the job title given to individuals who take care of our sick and elderly in Britain. Over the years the job title has changed many times. Auxilliary Nurse, Care Assistant, Home Help, Care Attendant and Carer are naming a few. For more years than I care to remember, I have worked as a Health Care Assistant. I have worked in a Hospital, in a Care Home, in a Nursing Home and also in people's own homes. I don't think it matters where I work as the basics, of what my job description is, are the same. My job is to take care of, and look after those who cannot, for whatever reason, look after themselves. A number of ...

A nurse is responsible--along with other health care professionals--for the treatment, safety, and recovery of acutely or chronically ill/injured people, health maintenance of the healthy, and treatment of life-threatening emergencies in a wide range of health care settings. Nurses may also be involved in medical and nursing research and perform a wide range of non-clinical functions necessary to the delivery of health care. Nurses also provide care at birth and death. There is currently a shortage of nurses in the United States and a number of other developed countries. Other healthcare workers Health care settings generally involve a wide range of ...

At around the age of sixteen I left school, due to the fact that they were only offering an NVQ in Leisure and Tourism, this was`nt for me so I left in November 1996. My mum was`nt an easy person, she did`nt allow me to join the YTP as it was known then, by joining this I would be payed £32 a week for working in a work placement job and she was`nt having this. Before leaving school, I had already decided that I wanted to look after the elderly, so I searched the local papers and aranged several interviews, shortly after Christmas I went for an interview and a few days later, the Nursing Home informed me that I got the job. First few ...