The Nursing Assistant Job Role
Michalis 'BIG Mike' Kotzakolios


Defined Tag: Nursing Assistant.

If you have worked as a nursing assistant for any length of time, you will know it’s not only a hard and thankless task, it’s also grossly underpaid. So why do people actually take on this role?

Nursing Assistants take on their role for a variety of reasons, some people decide they would like a career change; other people are under the misapprehension that the work is glamorous and they may meet a handsome doctor or two (Believe it)!!! Still others decide to work as a nursing assistant because they care and they want to help people.

Becoming a nursing assistant is not everyone’s cup of tea though and it is important that any prospective employer emphasizes to a potential employee that the work is hard and often unrecognized, especially by the people whom they will be caring for. There are a few people who enter this type of job wearing rose colored spectacles, and then receive a shock when they hit the actual reality of the job.

Many hospitals and facilities are now finding it difficult to recruit and retain high-quality caring people for nursing assistant’s posts; this is because the pay is usually very low. For some reason many employers are unable to fathom the fact that paying people very low wages for this type of work unfortunately leads to a bitter circle where the nursing assistant staff often has to work longer hours to cover for shortfalls in staffing levels or they have to reduce the level of care they offer to their patients. This in turn leads to frustration and fatigue from those working as a nursing assistant, and many of them leave their post bitter and disillusioned.

The need for nursing assistants to be recognized for the care and devotion they give to their patients is now paramount; many western countries including those such as the UK and the US have a crisis looming because of the shortage of good quality nursing assistants, and if it isn’t addressed very shortly the quality of care offered to those both in a hospital environment and care homes can only be expected to be seriously compromised

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