Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 185 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 431 g
Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 185 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 431 g
ISBN: 978-1-4441-6923-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Covering all the essential components of healthcare assistant and assistant practitioner roles, Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants 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
- Supplies comprehensive coverage of both primary and secondary care settings with an emphasis on the role in primary care
- Includes information on accountability, communication skills, confidentiality and reflection
- Uses a light-hearted and accessible style, with definitions, case studies and activities to aid understanding
- Includes a Foreword written by Tanis Hand, HCA adviser at the Royal College of Nursing
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.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
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
