CNA's in the UK

[FutureNurse23]

Hi I live in the US and I'm a US citizen. I was wondering if they had any CNA's( Certified Nursing Assistants) in the UK. In the US we work in Hospitals, Nursing Homes, LTC, Assistant Living, and Hospice. Many times we work in Nursing Homes and with the elderly in geriactrics. Our skills consist of doing glucose sticks, incontinent care, dressing,feeding,blood pressurses, taking vital signs( temp,respiration,pulse) assisting residents with ambulatory at times using gait belts and many different lift machines, making occupied and unoccupied beds, measurring input and output- from a foley, and changing colonyoscomy bags. These's are some of the skills we use daily. We are the eyes and the ears for the nursing staff. We do everything but administer drugs or give injections. We do all things under the supervision of the LPN's and RN's. So are they any CNA's in the UK? And if so what is the payrates and places in which they work?

[XB9S, BSN, MSN, EdD, RN, APN]

We don't have Certified Nurse assistants but we do have unqualified health care support workers that support the nursing staff.

Our HCA's have on the job training, and will take vital observations, blood sugars, assist with some of the ADL's. Some do venepuncture and there are a few who cannulate.

They work under the direct supervision of a registered nurse.

There is something called the national vocational qualification that some HCA's have, but there is nowhere these health care workers are registered or certified.

Just to add, they work in all healthcare settins, acute, LTC, mental health, paediatrics. The pay rate within the UK are standardised within the National health service and HCA's are usually either a band 2 which is the most common or senior HCA's may be on a band 3 under the agenda for change pay structure. This ranges from

£12,359 - £15,334 for a band 2 and £14,274 - £17,051 for a band 3

[cariad]

the cna,s in the us have to have a certification course, hence the title, our hospital employs them and then trains them even more to become patient care technicians, they do all the above and then more, some of them are really good, and some do it while they are training to be a nurse. once employed in the uk, they learn as they work, with mandatory courses that they have to attend, also with the added education that they can get from the nvq, or svq in scotland.