Duties of A Health Assistant Clinical in Ghana

 What are the duties of a registered health assistant clinical in Ghana? Are you a health assistant student or planning to pursue a carrier in that field?

If your answer to the above question is yes, then you are at the right place.

In this post Ghana Insider is going to make known to you the duties and responsibilities of a health assistant in Ghana.

Things to note

• Health assistants perform basic nursing tasks with or without supervision from senior nurses
• Health assistant education in Ghana takes only two years to complete.
• They are awarded Certificate in Enrolled Nursing after a successful completion of the course
• There are several health training institutions in Accra and other parts of Ghana offering the health assistant program.

Types of health assistants

Health assistants in Ghana are differentiated based on the work setting. They are basically two kind of health assistant in Ghana: health assistant clinical and health assistant preventive.

Duties of a health assistant clinical

Health assistant clinical work in the hospital settings. They either work with or without supervision. below are some of their duties.

• Patient education
• Feeding
• Documentation of nursing procedure
• Bed making
• Dusting of the ward
• Taking patient’s vital signs (respiration, temperature, pulse and blood pressure).
• Assistant patients to perform activities of daily living (bathing, brushing tooth, moving around, grooming, feeding, voiding, etc.)
• Assisting nurses in serving medications.
• Washing and cleaning

Duties of a health assistant preventive

The health assistant preventive nurses work mostly in the community setting providing public health services. Some of their responsibilities include the following.

• Health education on disease prevention, personal hygiene,
• Administering immunizations.
• Documenting procedures undertaken.
• Educate patient on dieting
• Education on family planning: contraceptives, labour, conception, etc.

Conclusion

The duties of a HACs may vary from one facility to the other. However, the above are the basic ones. Contact the facility you intend working at, and find out the scope of work. Thank you.