Concetti Chiave
- Support workers are categorized into clinical support workers, nursing auxiliaries, and ward clerks, each with specific roles in patient care and administrative tasks.
- Clinical support workers, like healthcare assistants, have basic qualifications and assist across various departments.
- Allied health professionals include physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers, and chiropodists, each focusing on different aspects of patient care and rehabilitation.
- Technicians in healthcare work with scientific equipment, including prosthetists who provide artificial limbs and orthotists who support or correct body parts using devices.
- Opticians test eyesight, prescribe corrective lenses, and may refer patients to ophthalmologists for specialized eye care.
Support workers
- Divided into many categories:
1) Clinical support worker (healthcare assistants): completed a short course and has
basic qualifications; assists in a variety of roles and departments
2) Nursing auxiliary: usually unqualified and assists nurses and midwives with patient care
3) Ward clerk: updates patients’ notes and information, answers the telephone
Allied health professionals
- In the health community they include:
1) Physiotherapists (physios): help people move through exercises, heat or massages (fisioterapisti)
2) Occupational therapists (OTS): help disabled people perform tasks at home
3) Social workers: help people with social problems or family problems (assistenti sociali)
4) Chiropodists (podiatrists): treat conditions affecting the feet (si occupano dei piedi)
Tecnici e le loro specializzazioni
Technicians: people who work with scientific equipment
- Prosthetists: provide prostheses, or artificial limbs (protesi per cambiare arti)
- Orthotists: provide orthoses, or devices to support or control part of the body such as splints or correct deformities (ex. club foot) and relieve pain (non si sostituisce l’arto ma si aiuta)
- Opticians: test eyesight and prescribe glasses and contact lenses; may refer the patient to an ophthalmologist, or a specialist in eye diseases (ottici)
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