Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners
eBook - ePub

Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners

  1. 238 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9781351605076
Edition
2
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Health Care Delivery
Index
ability 17
abuse 73, 74
Access to Health Records Act (1990) 41
accountability 15, 17–18, 19
active listening 26, 29
adjuvants 184, 185
adrenal insufficiency 86
advice 52–53, 99
agendas 30
aggression 35, 36, 57
alcohol 53, 57, 99, 121, 193
alcoholism 81, 132
alginates 161
alveoli 103, 166, 168
Alzheimer’s 32
ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) 94, 99
amputation 137, 141
anaemia 120, 130, 159, 191–192
anaerobic bacteria 161
anaphylactic reactions 185, 186, 188, 191
aneurysm 174
angina 95, 105, 106, 174
anorexia 121, 132
antibiotics 66, 169
antibodies 179, 188, 192
anticoagulants 113
antigens 179
antimicrobial dressings 154, 162, 163
antimuscarinic inhalers 169
ANTT see aseptic non-touch technique
anxiety: com...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Author Biography
  8. Illustrator Biography
  9. Foreword
  10. Introduction
  11. Section I: All Change
  12. Section II: Some Useful Stuff
  13. Section III: Core Skills
  14. Section IV: More Advanced Skills
  15. Glossary
  16. References
  17. Index