Zoe Rawles, Zoë Rawles

Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Covering all the essential components of healthcare assistant and assistant practitioner roles, this practical and comprehensive text equips readers with the necessary clinical skills and explores the underlying issues such as accountability, communication skills, confidentiality and reflection. This is an indispensable guide for all those training as healthcare assistants and assistant practitioners, as well as a useful reference for students embarking on a degree in nursing or health and social care.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 181
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444169249
• Artikelnr.: 56889517

Autorenporträt

Zoe Rawles, Zoë Rawles

Inhaltsangabe

Section I - All change 1. Evolving role of the healthcare assistant (HCA)
Section II - Some useful stuff 2. Understanding reflective practice 3.
Understanding accountability and delegation 4. A bit about protocols
Section III - Before you start: the basic ingredients 5. Communicating with
patients 6. Simple assertiveness skills 7. Confidentiality, consent and
record keeping 8. Health promotion: the key messages Section IV - Core
skills 9. Keeping it clean - hand decontamination 10. Physiological
measurements 11. Understanding blood pressure and performing
accurate measurements 12. Understanding the heart and performing the
electrocardiograph (ECG) 13. Venepuncture best practice 14. Understanding
lung function and disease: performing accurate lung function testing 15.
Kidney function and urine: performing accurate urinalysis 16. Skin and the
healing process: basic wound care 17. Chaperoning Section V - Finishing
touches 18. Training for the future