Nurse Aides, Orderlies, and Patient Attendants
Job description
These individuals help nurses, hospital staff, and doctors. They provide assistance in giving basic care to patients. They work in:
- Hospitals
- Rehabilitation centres
- Residential and long-term care centres (CHSLDs)
- Local Community Service Centres (CLSCs)
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Hazardous chemical
- Biological agents
- Odours
- Hazardous workplaces
- Violence
Main tasks
- Assist patients in their daily routine (washing, feeding, turning, dressing, etc.).
- Organize and propose activities to patients and accompany them.
- Supervise series of exercises performed by patients.
- Provide basic medical care (measuring vital signs, administering first aid, taking urine samples, etc.) as directed by nursing and hospital staff.
- Prepare and drive patients who are to undergo treatment or surgery.
- Deliver messages, reports, requests, and specimens from one department to another.
- Make beds and ensure the cleanliness of the rooms.
- Maintain supply inventory.
- Install, maintain, wash, sterilize, and repair equipment.
- Transport patients from one health care facility to another, as required.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2020 to 2022.- Minimum
- $16.00
- Median
- $21.23
- Maximum
- $25.63
Job prospects for 2023-2027
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Job prospects for 2023-2027
Job prospects
All of Québec
All of Québec
Total jobs for 2022
All of Québec
All of Québec
Gender distribution
All of Québec
- 82.7% Female
- 17.3% Male
- 82.7% Female
- 17.3% Male
Job types
All of Québec
- Full time
- Part time
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
-
NAICS 621, 622, 62390% of jobs
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NAICS 6243% of jobs
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NAICS 813% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 562% of jobs
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NAICS 911% of jobs
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Others1% of jobs
All of Québec
-
NAICS 621, 622, 62390% of jobs
-
NAICS 6243% of jobs
-
NAICS 813% of jobs
-
NAICS 55, 562% of jobs
-
NAICS 911% of jobs
-
Others1% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Secondary
DVS in assistance à la personne en établissement et à domicile
Placement rate: 79.6%
12.3% of graduates pursue further studies
DVS in institutional and Home Care Assistance
Placement rate: 78.8%
15.1% of graduates pursue further studies
Also required
- Supervised practical training.
Sometimes required
- Training in principles for moving clients safely (PDSB) is often required.
- Training in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is often required.
- A Class 5 driver’s licence may be required or an asset.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Service oriented
- Social perception
- Time management
- Information processing
- Active listening
- Oral expression
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Core strength
- Static muscle power
- Verbal skills
- Speech recognition
- Awareness of issues
- Near vision
- Speech clarity
- Physical flexibility in extension
- Manual dexterity
- Endurance
- Overall balance of the body
- Dynamic strength
- Explosive strength
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to establish and maintain interpersonal relations
- Autonomy
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Honesty
- Sense of initiative
- Capacity to be discrete
- Vitality
- Friendliness
- Respect others
- Patience
Interests
- Work manually
- Assist and advise
- Assist or care for people
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
Official name of the NOC 33102
Nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates
Job titles
- Personal support aide - medical
- Patient care assistant
- Medical orderly
- First aid attendant
- Geriatric health care attendant
- Patient service aide
- Personal care aide - medical
- Hospital service aide - medical
- Registered care aide
- Nursing services aide
- Long term care aide
- Respite care aide
- Patient care aide
- Special care aide - nursing
- Institutional aide
- Hospital aide
- Unit aide - medical
- Hospital ward aide
- Nursery aide - hospital
- Operating room aide
- Emergency room aide
- Surgical aide
- Hostel service aide - medical
- Geriatric aide
- Neuropsychiatric aide
- Psychiatric aide
- Health care aide
- Medical aide
- Nurse aide
- Resident care aide - medical
- Nursing assistant (non-registered)
- Emergency medical care attendant (non-paramedical)
- Patient service assistant
- Unit assistant - medical
- Service assistant - medical
- Support services assistant - medical
- Environmental assistant - medical
- Continuing care assistant
- Health care assistant
- Patient service associate
- Patient care associate
- Service associate - medical
- Hospital orderly
- Emergency medical care assistant
- Resident companion - medical
- Escort - health services
- Personal care provider - medical
- Environmental support person - medical
- Hospital porter
- Medical attendant - patient transfer
- Anesthetic attendant - hospital
- Patient service attendant
- Personal support worker – nursing care
- Service attendant - medical
- Nursing attendant
- Personal care attendant - medical
- Hospital attendant
- Nursing home attendant
- Special care facility attendant
- Emergency medical responder (non-paramedical)
- Unit support technician - medical
- Patient service worker
- Hospice worker
- Special care worker - medical
Skill type
Health
Last update: February 14, 2024