Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners

Zoe Rawles (HealthTrain, UK)

ISBN 10: 1138093564 / ISBN 13: 9781138093560

Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2019

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. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Codice articolo GOR011613552

Riassunto:

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.

Informazioni sull'autore:

Zoë Rawles is a healthcare trainer for HealthTrain in Wales, UK.

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: Essential Knowledge and Skills for ...
Casa editrice: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom, London
Data di pubblicazione: 2019
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
Edizione: seconda edizione