{"id":2441,"date":"2020-11-09T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pflegezukunft.wien\/?page_id=2441"},"modified":"2025-01-08T08:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T07:45:29","slug":"specialist-care-assistants","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pflegezukunft.wien\/en\/education-and-training\/specialist-care-assistants\/","title":{"rendered":"Specialist care assistants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Specialist care assistants<\/h1>\n<\/div>

As a specialist care assistant, you will work with doctors and registered nursing staff to provide care services to patients. You will perform your tasks independently and will, for example, help patients with their personal care and their meals, start and remove infusions, run diagnostic tests and you will know what to do in emergencies.<\/p>\n

Compared to care assistants, specialist care assistants have enhanced medical\/diagnostic skills and responsibilities. Specialist care assistants will monitor their patients\u2019 health on an ongoing basis. They will perform different routine medical checks and collect and monitor basic medical data, such as pulse, blood pressure, breathing, temperature, consciousness, weight, size, excretion. In this context, they will also perform standardised diagnostic tests, such as an ECG, EEG or lung function test.<\/p>\n

Training to become a specialist care assistant takes 2 years to complete, but there is a shortened version (1 year of full-time training) offered to care assistants. Specialist care assistants work in home care, long-term care facilities, hospitals, day centres or senior group homes.<\/p>\n

Main duties and responsibilities<\/h3>\n
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  • Performing assigned care procedures to help with life activities, such as personal hygiene, mobility, eating<\/li>\n
  • Assisting in the collection, monitoring and forwarding of biography-related, care-relevant data and in evaluating the care process<\/li>\n
  • Assisting in medical\/diagnostic activities, such as taking blood samples, giving injections and administering medicines<\/li>\n
  • Mobilising patients and supporting and promoting their physical, mental, psychological and social resources<\/li>\n
  • Placing and removing nasogastric and orogastric tubes<\/li>\n
  • Inserting and removing urethral catheters (except in children)<\/li>\n
  • Performing standardised diagnostic tests (e.g. ECG)<\/li>\n
  • Documenting care services<\/li>\n
  • Guiding and instructing trainee care assistants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>
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