Zoë Rawles

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This revised edition of Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants is an accessible and comprehensive text designed to equip you with the necessary skills for your practice.

This is an essential guide for all those training as healthcare assistants, nursing associates and assistant practitioners.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040378564
• Artikelnr.: 74304007

Autorenporträt

Zoë Rawles BN BSc (Hons) Retired Lecturer/Nurse Practitioner and Director of HealthTrain.

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