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  • 49 of 49 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    rosierozi

    5 Stars Care Assistant jobs. Diamond review 06/01/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Meet lovely people,rewarding.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Cleaning up vomit,etc,early mornings,rates of pay.

    At the age of 18,and studying for my A-Levels,I knew that I needed a job. I also knew that I had to start saving,as I'd bought myself a holiday for after my results and needed some spending money....quickly! I live in a village,just out of Town and needed a job that would be close to home,as I didnt drive and the 3.60p single fare to Town was a bit of a con,so I immediately looked for a job,in my area. I'd worked in pubs and even worked packing flowers for Marks and Spencers,but hated both of these with a passion. I'd also always enjoyed looking after people,whether this was Children ,Disabled ... more
  • 41 of 41 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    the_evil_aku

    4 Stars The backbone of the NHS 17/07/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Good pay and prospects, Educational

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Stressful, early mornings and late nights

    The job role of a Health Care Assistant or Health Care Support worker as they are now known is a role like no other. Challenging to many and rewarding to all, working as part of a Hospital team can really open your eyes to the world around you. As a HCA your duties are to provide support and assistance to Health care professionals with nursing, domestic and general duties. Working as part of a varied and multidisciplinary team, the HCA position is a vital one. In many cases you will provide the first line of care for hospitalised patients. This helps senior nurses and team members to perform ... more
  • 52 of 52 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    nereesa85

    5 Stars So....you want to wipe bums for a living? 02/11/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Fantastic people, old people ARE cute, satisfaction, first rung on the ladder.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Minimum wage, smelly stuff, death.

    Hi I'm Nereesa, I'm 20 and I have been a care Assistant for a little over two years. I work in a 40 bed Nursing home. My clients are Nursing, Residential and sometimes Compassionate Care (terminal). Before I go into more detail about my wonderful job I must emphasise to you that I am not a HCA. I am merely a Care Assistant. The only difference is that I work in a home environment rather than a Hospital. I would have made a suggestion to Ciao but the two jobs are basically the same so there's no point. Whenever I tell people that I'm a care assistant I get one of three responses. "So you wipe ... more
  • 32 of 32 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 dynamicnurse

    Member since 30/07/2007

    Reviews written: 642

    4 Stars Care For Me. 21/09/2012
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Rewarding work.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not for everyone.

    Having spent a lot of my working life so far to date in the nursing and care world, I would just like to write a review on my own experiences of working as a health care assistant. In days gone past, the only things that health care assistants were allowed to do were washing and dressing patients or residents and helping them to have food and drink - the rest of it was then left up to the nurses or doctors. But as times have changed, so have the amount of things that health care assistants are able to do. Of course what they are actually able to do depends on where they are actually working at ... more
  • 68 of 68 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    L0BSTER_QUADRILLE

    4 Stars Is this A Career for You??? 23/04/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Phenomonal job satisfaction.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages can be quite upsetting at times.

    Okay! So; I spent three years of my life in this role; I shall attempt to review it. A ‘Health Care Assistant’ or H.C.A. as its more commonly known (this title has now in most places changed to ‘Health Care Support Worker’) is someone who works within a hospital in a ‘multi disciplinary team’. Health Care Assistant’s probably have more contact with patients than any other worker in the hospital. There are a variety of duties expected of a H.C.A including; *assisting patients with activities of daily living i.e. washing; Eating; Drinking; Mobility etc where necessary and dependant on individual ... more
  • 17 of 17 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Alison3

    5 Stars Caring for the elderly in their own homes 03/11/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Getting to know these people and gaining their trust and friendship

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Losing the eople we have cared for

    I have just completed my first year as a Care worker. So I decided a review on what it is like to do this job was in order. I Had been working in the kitchen of my local college for 9 years when out of the blue two discs in my back prolapsed, and after having to take a year off with the worst pain I have ever had in my life, I had to review my situation, and leave this job but what to do next. Previous years have seen me bringing up my own children one of whom has slight brain damage from a road accident when he was six (now 22), being a registered childminder and a foster carer. So I decided ... more
  • 57 of 57 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    NURSE_BETTY

    4 Stars the life and times of a HCA 26/04/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages job satisfaction

    Disadvantages Disadvantages hard work

    As most people may have guessed by my user name that I am a nurse. I am currently a ‘D’ grade staff nurse on a orthopaedic trauma ward in a busy hospital. Prior to getting this far I worked as a care assistant in an elderly mentally ill nursing home and a Health Care Assistant (HCA) on a urology unit and on the nurse bank, which meant working from ward to ward (medical, surgical, orthopaedic, elderly, gynaecological, ENT, outpatients the list goes on..) all before starting my nurse training and now qualifying (all last). It is the role of the HCA that I am reviewing, A HCA is a valued member ... more
  • 42 of 42 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 Katieshaz

    Member since 01/11/2002

    Reviews written: 121

    3 Stars Working as a HCA 26/06/2010

    Advantages Advantages Helping people, rewarding, the variety.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Poor pay and bodily fluids, cleaning up poo! Some aggressive patients

    As I'm a student nurse I have joined a hospital temp bank. The Bank offers flexible shifts-when you want to work although some banks do have a minimum number of hours you must work a year or month to remain employed on the bank. I work for an NHS Trust Bank which will be extra money for me when I'm at uni as well as experience in a wide variety of clinical areas. I had already volunteered on a hospital ward so knew what to expect. This is basically the NHS's own temp agency so you get NHS pension provision etc What do HCA's do? They used to be known as nursing auxiliaries or nursing assistants ... more
  • 60 of 61 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    kazziebears

    4 Stars I Cared enough to Assist 24/03/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages To know that you have made a real difference to someones life

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Can be sad, depressing and hard work at times

    1.She has had no rigors or shaking chills, but her husband states that she was very hot in bed last night. 2.Between you and me we ought to be able to get this lady pregnant. 3.She is numb from the toes down! These are just a few of the ‘funnies’ doing the rounds at our hospital at the moment. Apparently they supposedly are extractions from actual patients notes! I can’t corroborate that but I have seen a few funny extracts in my time as a nurse. Not as obvious as those above but mildly amusing nevertheless and not of the kind to cause any offence to anyone affected. It is ... more
  • 31 of 31 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 CGholy

    Member since 17/06/2010

    Reviews written: 238

    5 Stars There's always going to be a need for carers 10/03/2013
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Rewarding Career

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Time is your worst enemy

    Being a care assistant is perhaps one of the most hardest jobs you can do in a practical sense. But at the same time, many people who work as a care assistant will say it's one of the most rewarding things they've ever done. There are many names for a care assistant such as Support Worker, Nursing Assistant, Clinical Support Worker, Auxiliary Nurse and there's a lot more names for them. But the name dosen't really matter because we all have a duty of care. You will find them in care settings such as; hospitals, nursing homes, day centres or even in a client's own home. I had very little ... more
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