UID:
almahu_9949386435502882
Umfang:
1 online resource
Ausgabe:
Second edition.
ISBN:
9781315106755
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1315106752
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9781351605076
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1351605070
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9781351605083
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1351605089
Originaltitel:
Essential knowledge and skills for healthcare assistants
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Previous edition published as : Essential knowledge and skills for healthcare assistants.
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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.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Essential knowledge and skills for healthcare assistants and assistant practitioners Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. ISBN 9781138093553 (hardback : alk. paper)
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781315106755
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315106755
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