Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners

Zoë Rawles

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781351605076
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

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.

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

• Cover Page
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Author Biography
• Illustrator Biography
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Section I: All Change
• Section II: Some Useful Stuff
• Section III: Core Skills
• Section IV: More Advanced Skills
• Glossary
• References
• Index