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2. Healthcare technician - Wikipedia

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   Healthcare technicians or HCT are also known as Patient Care Technician (PCT) or Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). HCTs' objectives are to provide basic nursing care, use communication skills to assist patients in adapting to common health problems, provide continuity of care, demonstrate acceptance of responsibility for learning purposes, and ...

3. Unlicensed assistive personnel - Wikipedia

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   "In the United States, certified nursing assistants typically work in a nursing home or hospital and perform everyday living tasks for the elderly, chronically sick, or rehabilitation patients who cannot care for themselves." [11] Many community colleges offer CNA training in one semester. Other educational programs offer accelerated programs.

4. Orderly - Wikipedia

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   In healthcare, an orderly (also known as a ward assistant, nurse assistant or healthcare assistant) is a hospital attendant whose job consists of assisting medical and nursing staff with various nursing and medical interventions. These duties are classified as routine tasks involving no risk for the patient.

5. Nursing in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) 75-hour vocational course [5] 1,389,900 [6] $30,290 (2021) [6] Certified Nursing Assistants are trained to perform a limited range of procedures in support of Registered Nurses, under whose supervision they are generally required to work.

6. List of professional designations in the United States

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   The minimum degree required for licensure as a Registered Nurse Associate Degree in Paramedicine: N/A The minimum degree required for licensure as a Paramedic State Licensure (post-nominals different then degree) Certified Nursing Assistant: CNA Assistive personnel that is state licensed and works under the direction of a Registered Nurse

7. Allied health professions - Wikipedia

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   The organization of International Chief Health Professions Officers (ICHPO) [3] developed a widely-used definition of the allied health professions: Allied Health Professions are a distinct group of health professionals who apply their expertise to prevent disease transmission, diagnose, treat and rehabilitate people of all ages and all specialties.