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Essential knowledge and skills for healthcare assistants and assistant practitioners / Zoë Rawles.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019Edition: Second editionDescription: xvi, 237 pages : illustrations, portrait 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138093560 (pbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Essential knowledge and skills for healthcare assistants
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 610.730698
NLM classification:
  • WY 193
Contents:
The evolving role of the healthcare assistant -- Understanding reflective practice -- Accountability and delegation -- Using protocols -- Communicating with patients -- Simple assertiveness skills -- Confidentiality, consent and record keeping -- Health promotion : the key messages -- Keeping it clean. hand decontamination -- Chaperoning -- Physiological measurements -- Understanding and measuring blood pressure accurately -- Understanding the heart. How to perform the electrocardiograph (ECG) -- Venepuncture and capillary blood testing : best practice -- Kidney function and urine. performing accurate urinalysis -- Examining the feet of people with diabetes -- The skin and the healing process. basic wound care -- Understanding lung function and disease. Performing accurate lung function testing -- Administering injections -- Ear irrigation.
Item type: 4 Week Loan
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4 Week Loan Merlin Park University Hospital, Galway Merlin Park University Hospital, Galway 610.730698/RAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available GM07311
4 Week Loan University Hospital Galway University Hospital Galway 610.730698/RAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available RE07731
4 Week Loan University Hospital Galway University Hospital Galway 610.7306/RAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available RE07195
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The evolving role of the healthcare assistant -- Understanding reflective practice -- Accountability and delegation -- Using protocols -- Communicating with patients -- Simple assertiveness skills -- Confidentiality, consent and record keeping -- Health promotion : the key messages -- Keeping it clean. hand decontamination -- Chaperoning -- Physiological measurements -- Understanding and measuring blood pressure accurately -- Understanding the heart. How to perform the electrocardiograph (ECG) -- Venepuncture and capillary blood testing : best practice -- Kidney function and urine. performing accurate urinalysis -- Examining the feet of people with diabetes -- The skin and the healing process. basic wound care -- Understanding lung function and disease. Performing accurate lung function testing -- Administering injections -- Ear irrigation.

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