The Health Care Assistant (HCA) Guidelines were developed to clarify the role of the non regulated HCA workforce and its relationship with professional nursing services working within general health acute care settings in DHBs. These documents are now available to download:
Health Care Assistant Guidelines
Appendices to HCA work guidelines project, including
1. Template HCA Position Description
2. Safe Staffing and Healthy Workplaces Unit survey
3. Ethical, Legal & Accountability aspects of regulated and unregulated workforce
4. Direction and delegation flow chart for RN, NCNZ
5. Direction and delegation flow chart (draft) HCA, NZNO
6. The responsibilities of the employer, NCNZ
7. Guidance for employers, service and human resource managers
8. References and resources
Health Care Assistant role description
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