Skills Support Services Assistant - Medical near Kingston (ON)

Find out what skills you typically need to work as a support services assistant - medical in Canada. These skills are applicable to all Nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates (NOC 33102).

Tasks

  • Supply and empty bed pans
  • Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
  • Serve meal trays and feed patients
  • Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
  • Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
  • Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
  • Supervise patients' exercise routines
  • Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
  • Maintain inventory of supplies
  • Bathe, dress and groom patients
  • Assist with the set-up and maintenance of traction equipment, cleaning or sterilizing equipment, maintaining and repairing equipment, and assembling, setting-up and operating job-related equipment
  • Transport patients between care facilities
  • Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
  • Answer call signals
  • Collect specimens
  • Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
  • Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
  • Administer first aid in emergency situations

Skills and Knowledge Checklist

The following skills and knowledge are usually required in this occupation.

Skills

Handling Goods and Materials

Working with goods and materials manually or with machines.

Building

Working with materials to construct, renovate and maintain structures.

Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles Help - Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles
  • Mechanical Installing, Maintaining and Repairing

Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles

Working with and/or repairing vehicles, machinery or stationary equipment.

Mechanical Installing, Maintaining and Repairing
Installing equipment or machines and/or using tools and devices to maintain and repair them.

Working with Technological Equipment and Machinery

Working with technical equipment, instruments, machinery and other systems.

Service and Care Help - Service and Care
  • Cleaning and House/Shop Keeping
  • Tending to Daily Needs
  • Serving Others

Service and Care

Taking care of the needs of people and animals.

Cleaning and House/Shop Keeping
Providing cleaning and janitorial services.
Tending to Daily Needs
Responding to the personal care needs of people or animals.
Serving Others
Assisting the public by answering questions, making recommendations, and providing information or support in response to requests.
Communication Help - Communication
  • Teaching and Training

Communication

Using communication skills to share information, advise and influence.

Teaching and Training
Facilitating the acquisition of new knowledge and skills.

Creative Expression

Using various materials and formats to create work that is intended to be artistically satisfying, entertaining, instructive or functional.

Information Handling Help - Information Handling
  • Processing Information

Information Handling

Creating and using systems for the storage and retrieval of knowledge and data.

Processing Information
Inputting, recording, transcribing and updating data using electronic or manual information systems.

Analysis

Examining and evaluating information.

Management

Taking charge of the direction and resources of an organization.

Knowledge

Manufacturing and Production

Knowledge related to the delivery of a series of operations in large-scale production or processing of goods or crops, according to safety and quality standards.

Communications and Transportation

Knowledge related to the provision and transmission of systems of communication and entertainment and the delivery of consumer goods or services.

Law and Public Safety

Knowledge related to the provision and enforcement of laws and regulations that safeguard the effective functioning of a democratic society.

Social Sciences and Arts

Knowledge related to culture, origins and patterns of human activity, and the development and expression of thought.

Education and Training

Knowledge related to the theory and practice of teaching, and the methods used in the design, delivery and evaluation of the provision of knowledge or information.

Health Services

Knowledge related to the provision of medical science and technology for the physical and mental well-being of others.

Mathematics and Science

Knowledge related to specialized areas of research such as measurement, living organisms, physical substances, and properties and relationships of quantity, space, and matter.

Engineering and Technology

Knowledge related to the design, building, use or repair of machinery, equipment, systems, and structures.

Business, Finance and Management Help - Business, Finance and Management
  • Client Service
  • Clerical

Business, Finance and Management

Knowledge related to organization and control of business activities.

Client Service
Knowledge of principles and practices of providing service to clients to maintain and build organizational success.
Clerical
Knowledge of office administrative and clerical practices and procedures.
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