Clinical skills for healthcare assistants and assistant practitioners / Angela Whelan and Elaine Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whelan, Angela, 1962- author.

Hughes, Elaine, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nurses' aides.

United Kingdom.

Medical Subjects:

United Kingdom.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (447 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Clinical Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners is an accessible, easy-to-read guide, outlining the fundamental and core skills integral to clinical practice. Fully updated in its second edition, this book is divided into three sections; the first looks at fundamental skills applicable to all staff, such as accountability, communication and record keeping. Section two explores core clinical skills such as respiratory care, pulse, blood glucose management and catheter care. Section three outlines complex clinical skills that require more in-depth training, such as medication and intravenous cannulation. An invaluable resource for healthcare assistants and assistant practitioners, this book will also be of use to newly qualified practitioners, and students in health and social care.

Contents:

Accountability

Communication in healthcare

Psychological well-being

Documentation and record keeping

Pulse

Blood pressure monitoring

Temperature

Pulse oximetry

Respiratory care

Urinalysis and faecal occult blood testing

Urinary catheterisation and catheter care

Venepuncture

Blood glucose monitoring

Fluid balance adn intravenous maintenance

Medicines

Peripheral intravenous cannulation

Recording a 12-lead ECG.

Notes:

Preceded by Clinical skills for healthcare assistants / Paula Ingram and Irene Lavery. 2009.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-118-44199-0

1-118-28197-7