Essential knowledge and skills for healthcare assistants. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Zoe Rawles.
• Authors: Rawles, Zoe
• Contents: All change; Evolving role of the healthcare assistant (HCA); Some useful stuff; Understanding reflective practice; Understanding accountability and delegation; A bit about protocols; Before you start: the basic ingredients; Communicating with patients; Simple assertiveness skills; Confidentiality, consent and record keeping; Health promotion: the key messages; Core skills; Keeping it clean – hand decontamination; Physiological measurements; Understanding blood pressure and performing accurate measurements; Understanding the heart and performing the electrocardiograph (ECG); Venepuncture best practice; Understanding lung function and disease: performing accurate lung function testing; Kidney function and urine: performing accurate urinalysis; Skin and the healing process: basic wound care; Chaperoning; Finishing touches; Training for the future
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (181 pages)
• Subjects: 610.730698; Nurses' aides; Medical care
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781444169249; 1444169246
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.