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General Duty Assistant
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General Duty Assistant

General Duty Assistant

Job Description
Individuals on the job provide patient care and help maintain a suitable environment. Some of the key responsibilities of the General Duty Assistant are to provide the patient’s daily care, patient’s comfort, patient’s safety and patient’s health needs.

Personal Attributes
This job requires the individual to work in collaboration with Doctors and Nurses and other healthcare providers and deliver the healthcare services as suggested by them. The individual should be result-oriented. The individual should also be able to demonstrate basic patient care skills, communication skills, and ethical behaviour. The individual should be willing to work inwards or clinics in shifts.

Eligibility criteria
  • Applicant who have cleared Class- X from any recognized board
  • No current full-time employment for last 6 months

Course Content

Course Content

As a General Duty Assistant, candidates will have the understanding of-
As a General Duty Assistant, candidates will have the understanding of-
  • Healthcare Systems
  • Broad functions of Patient Care Assistant
  • Human BodyStructure & Function
  • Personnel Hygiene & Professional Behaviour
  • Bio Medical Waste Management
  • Emergency Medical Response
  • Body Mechanics
  • Positioning/Transferring/Mobility of patients
  • Observing and Reporting
  • Consent, Documentation & Records
  • Patient’s Rights & Environment
  • Patient – Basic care and needs
  • Elimination and Bed Making
  • Fall Prevention and Mortuary Management
  • Role of General Duty Assistant – Sanitation, Safety & First Aid
  • Infections control and prevention
  • Institutional Emergencies, Fire safety and & security
  • Emergencies in health care and response to patient call
  • Basic Computer Knowledge
  • Soft Skills And Communications
  • Healthcare Systems
  • Broad functions of Patient Care Assistant
  • Human BodyStructure & Function
  • Personnel Hygiene & Professional Behaviour
  • Bio Medical Waste Management
  • Emergency Medical Response
  • Body Mechanics
  • Positioning/Transferring/Mobility of patients
  • Observing and Reporting
  • Consent, Documentation & Records
  • Patient’s Rights & Environment
  • Patient – Basic care and needs
  • Elimination and Bed Making
  • Fall Prevention and Mortuary Management
  • Role of General Duty Assistant – Sanitation, Safety & First Aid
  • Infections control and prevention
  • Institutional Emergencies, Fire safety and & security
  • Emergencies in health care and response to patient call
  • Basic Computer Knowledge
  • Soft Skills And Communications

Career Progression

A General Duty Assistant can grow through promotions, experience and education to the profile of a Clinical Nurse Supervisor and finally achieve the position of a Head Nurse.

Potential employers include large hospitals, private clinics and medical research institutes. As far as the demand for healthcare professionals is concerned, technicians and paramedics account for over 75% of the increasing human resource recruitment.

This clearly shows that there is sufficient scope of growth in the career of a General Duty Assistant. When we talk about the career-oriented nursing programs, General Duty Assistant is one career you cannot resist.
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