Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners / Zoë Rawles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rawles, Zoe, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nurses' aides.

Medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Second edtion.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This fully updated and revised edition of Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners is a practical and comprehensive text designed to equip you with the necessary clinical skills for your profession. This book: equips you with the knowledge to provide the safest and most effective patient care possible; provides evidence-based guidelines to ensure best practice that is matched to the National Occupational Standards and the Care Certificate; includes new chapters on administering injections, ear irrigation and examining the feet of people with diabetes, and an entirely rewritten chapter on protocols; addresses the evolving role of the healthcare assistant and training opportunities; supplies comprehensive coverage of both primary and secondary care settings, with an emphasis on primary care; covers accountability, communication skills, confidentiality and reflection; and uses a light-hearted and accessible style, with definitions, case studies and activities to aid understanding. This is an indispensable guide for all those training as healthcare assistants and assistant practitioners, and an introductory textbook for students embarking on nursing and health and social care programmes.

Contents:

Section I All change p. 1

Chapter 1 The evolving role of the healthcare assistant p. 3

Section II Some useful stuff p. 7

Chapter 2 Understanding reflective practice p. 9

Chapter 3 Accountability and delegation p. 17

Chapter 4 Using protocols p. 21

Chapter 5 Communicating with patients p. 25

Chapter 6 Simple assertiveness skills p. 35

Chapter 7 Confidentiality, consent and record-keeping p. 41

Chapter 8 Health promotion: the key messages p. 51

Chapter 9 Keeping it clean; hand decontamination p. 65

Chapter 10 Chaperoning p. 73

Section III Core skills p. 79

Chapter 11 Physiological measurements p. 81

Chapter 12 Understanding and measuring blood pressure accurately p. 93

Chapter 13 Understanding the heart: how to perform the electrocardiograph (ECG) p. 101

Chapter 14 Venepuncture and capillary blood testing: best practice p. 113

Chapter 15 Kidney function and urine: performing accurate urinalysis p. 129

Section IV More advanced skills p. 135

Chapter 16 Examining the feet of people with diabetes p. 137

Chapter 17 The skin and the healing process: basic wound care p. 151

Chapter 18 Understanding lung function and disease: performing accurate lung function testing p. 165

Chapter 19 The role of the HCA in administering immunisations and the B₁₂ injection p. 177

Chapter 20 Ear examination and irrigation p. 201.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9781315106755

1315106752

9781351605083

1351605089

9781351605076

1351605070

9781351605069

1351605062

OCLC:

1089683396

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.