In which profession can a nursing assistant retrain. Are you a Caregiver looking for retraining and wondering how your professional background and personal skills can help you? Whether your project is accompanied by training or not, whether you have a nursing assistant diploma or not, even if you are simply in a process of professional development, we encourage you before anything else, to look at transversal skills that a caregiver shares with other professions in the medical sector or not.

In which profession can a nursing assistant retrain

What retraining for a nursing assistant? We have noticed that many would like to reorient themselves, for example, towards the public service as an administrative agent. . Other Caregivers would prefer to change to social or to become ATSEM . Some are also attracted to the pharmacy and wonder how to go from Caregiver to assistant in pharmacy or  » Caregiver to Nurse .

Use transversal skills first

We are going to rely on a study carried out by pole emploi and France Stratégie on transversal skills to try to help you see clearly in your career change decision.

As a Caregiver, we have chosen a group of transversal skills that facilitate the transition to other professions. We would like to point out, however, that we have retained here that transversal skills having values ​​higher than the average of the trades :

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• Contact with the public (for example, in support of patient care, meals and everyday activities).
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• Teamwork (for example, by informing the nurse abnormal manifestations or risk of falls, bedsores, etc.)
• Quality standards and risk management
• Physical efforts (for example in the accompaniment to the toilet , solicitation, stimulation of patients …)
• Visual or audible attention (for example by tracking changes to patient’s condition).
• Work under pressure
• Emotional charge
• Organizational changes

Reconversion Caregiver to administrative employee of the public service

If you wish to retrain a nurse’s aide towards the public service, either as an administrative agent or retraining in the hospital public service first analyze your strengths and areas for improvement.

Your strengths:

As a caregiver, here is the list of transversal skills that will facilitate your mobility for the profession of administrative employee of the public service :

• Contact with the public (for example in a post of telephone and physical reception of residents. By informing people about administrative formalities)
• Immediate response to the request, that is to say; the reactivity
• Emotional load (for example; you can sometimes manage delicate situations)
• Organizational changes

Your Points to improve (skills with values ​​much higher than a Caregiver:

The points that you will have to develop as a Caregiver in retraining towards administrative employee of the public service are for example :

• Reading and writing documents (Example: note-taking techniques, creation of administrative files, etc.)
• Use of IT tools (by example; in the instruction and the constitution of the files, the recording of the requests…)

Professesional retraining Caregiver to social

If you wish to make a professional retraining of Caregiver towards the profession of professional of social action and orientation.

Your strengths:

As a Caregiver, here are the transversal skills that will facilitate your mobility for the profession of social work and guidance professional :

• Contact with the public (for example with family people that you follow )
• Immediate response to the request, that is to say; the reactivity
• Teamwork (for example multidisciplinary Teamwork)
• Work under pressure
• Emotional load (for example; caring for frail people)
• Organizational changes

Your Points to improve (skills with values ​​much higher than a Caregiver):

If you are a nursing assistant in retraining towards profession of social action and guidance professional , here are for example the skills that you will lack:

• Reading and writing documents
• Supervision and supervision (for example when you are responsible for the supervision of adolescents with intellectual disabilities with or without associated disorders…)
• Driving a vehicle (for example in your missions of physical accompaniment or outings…)

Here are a few other trades to finish who share the same high values ​​( see the A higher )) in terms of transversal skills that a Caregiver:

• The police
• Army
• The profession of Seller
• Nurses, midwives (your points to improve: reading and writing documents, supervision, supervision and handling of small objects)
• …

Various examples of professional reorientation of nursing assistants

CAREGIVER (in retraining)