What's the difference between a medical worker and a nursing worker?

The difference between medical staff and nursing workers: responsibilities and scope of work, education and training requirements, working environment and career development.

1. Responsibilities and scope of work: Health professionals are mainly responsible for providing health consultation and guidance services. They usually assess personal health, provide health advice, make health plans, and monitor and track personal health. Nurses are mainly responsible for providing basic nursing services, such as assisting patients in their daily activities, measuring vital signs, and assisting in diet and personal hygiene.

2. Education and training requirements: Medical staff usually need to have relevant health science background knowledge and professional training, and master the skills of health assessment and health guidance. Nursing workers need to receive basic nursing training and learn basic nursing skills and knowledge.

3. Working environment: Medical staff can work in different fields such as medical institutions, health insurance companies and health management institutions. Nursing workers usually provide nursing services in hospitals, nursing homes, home care services and other places.

4. Career development: Medical staff can develop in the fields of health management, health education and health consultation. They can further study to become health consultants or health education experts. Nursing workers can improve their nursing skills through further study and training, and have the opportunity to be promoted to senior nurses or engage in nursing work in special fields.

Introduction of health care professionals

Health care technicians refer to those who use basic medical care knowledge and skills to provide health care and life care for health care objects in families, hospitals, communities and other places.

On February 25th, 2020, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, General Administration of Market Supervision and National Bureau of Statistics jointly released intelligent manufacturing engineers, industrial internet engineers, virtual reality engineers, chain managers, supply chain managers, network contract distributors and artificial intelligence trainers to the public.

New occupations such as environmental inspector of electrical and electronic products, all-media operator, health worker, respiratory therapist, birth defect prevention consultant, rehabilitation assistant technical consultant, UAV assembly maintenance worker, railway comprehensive maintenance worker, prefabricated construction worker, etc. 16.

For the above contents, please refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Healthy nurse practitioner.