PSOC 5321
Health Care Assistants
Health care assistants provide direct personal care and assistance with activities of daily living to patients and residents in a variety of health care settings such as hospitals, clinics, and residential nursing care facilities. They generally work in implementation of established care plans and practices, and under the direct supervision of medical, nursing or other health professionals or associate professionals.
Landas can show the official occupation information, but it does not have enough checked pathway evidence for a personal route.
Task view
How the work breaks down
5 official task groups in this profile
- No detailed AI-use signal
providing care, support and treatment to patients and residents of medical, rehabilitative and residential care facilities as per treatment plans established by medical, nursing and other health professionals
- No detailed AI-use signal
assisting patients with personal and therapeutic care needs such as personal hygiene, feeding, dressing, physical mobility and exercise, communication; taking oral medications; and changing dressings
- No detailed AI-use signal
positioning, lifting and turning patients and transporting them in wheelchairs or on movable beds; maintaining patients' environmental hygiene standards, such as cleaning patient rooms and changing bed-linen
- No detailed AI-use signal
providing massage and other non-pharmacological pain relief measures, such as during pregnancy and labor
- No detailed AI-use signal
observing patients’ condition, responses and behavior and reporting changes to a health professional
Sources and limits
What supports this guide
Task evidence describes observed AI use and checked crosswalks. It does not predict that a whole occupation will disappear. Global AI-use data may not match Philippine workplaces.