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Care worker / nursing assistant — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Home Health Aides · Paramedics · Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses · Acute Care Nurses · Emergency Medical Technicians · Psychiatric Aides · Surgical Assistants · Physical Therapist Aides
In the official classification#
Nursing Assistants
Fit with this page: covers part of this page
Job Zone 3: medium preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗Personal Care Aides
Fit with this page: covers part of this page
Job Zone 1–2: very little to some preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 31-1131.00 (Nursing Assistants). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- Service OrientationVery important
- Social PerceptivenessVery important
- CoordinationImportant
- Judgment and Decision MakingImportant
- Time ManagementImportant
- Complex Problem SolvingImportant
- InstructingImportant
- Operations MonitoringSomewhat important
Knowledge
- Customer and Personal ServiceVery important
- Administration and ManagementImportant
- English LanguageImportant
- Public Safety and SecurityImportant
- Medicine and DentistryImportant
- Education and TrainingImportant
Work activities
- Assisting and Caring for OthersExtremely important
- Getting InformationVery important
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or SubordinatesVery important
- Documenting/Recording InformationVery important
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal RelationshipsVery important
- Performing General Physical ActivitiesVery important
Abilities
- Oral ComprehensionVery important
- Problem SensitivityVery important
- Oral ExpressionVery important
- Near VisionVery important
- Speech RecognitionVery important
- Static StrengthImportant
Essential skills
- Active ListeningVery important
- MonitoringImportant
- Reading ComprehensionImportant
- SpeakingImportant
- Critical ThinkingImportant
Tasks O*NET proposes to add#
O*NET's analysts propose new or reworded task statements for future data collection, drawing on what surveyed workers write in, research into new technologies and professional associations. They are candidates, not yet part of the rated task list, and they say nothing about whether automation is involved. This site does not fold them into its own task judgements.
- Administer bedside or personal care, such as assistance with ambulation, dressing, feeding, or personal hygiene.Revised wording of an existing task · 2023-08 · reported by surveyed workers · O*NET 31.0
Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 4 task judgements are for: 2 backed by a verified event, 2 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Four kinds of source, and each block says which: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.