Essential knowledge and skills for healthcare assistants and assistant practitioners / Zoë Rawles.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019Edition: Second editionDescription: xvi, 237 pages : illustrations, portrait 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781138093560 (pbk.)
- Essential knowledge and skills for healthcare assistants
- 23 610.730698
- WY 193
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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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