Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants
eBook - PDF

Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants

  1. 181 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants by Zoe Rawles,Zoë Rawles in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Health Care Delivery. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781138454644
eBook ISBN
9781444169249
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. Author Biography – Zoë Rawles
  7. Section I - All Change
  8. Section II - Some Useful Stuff
  9. Section III - Before You Start: The Basic Ingredients
  10. Section IV - Core Skills
  11. Section V - Finishing Touches
  12. Glossary
  13. References
  14. Back Cover