Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants

Zoe Rawles, Zoe Rawles (HealthTrain, UK)

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Routledge
11 August 2017

Medicine: general issues; Midwifery

"This book covers some of the more theoretical aspects of the healthcare assistants (HCAs), and provides an accessible and ""user-friendly"" approach to learning some of the underpinning knowledge, skills and practical tasks that are routinely included in the job description of the HCA."

By: Zoe Rawles, Zoe Rawles (HealthTrain, UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 189mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138454644
ISBN 10: 1138454648
Pages: 182
Publication Date: 11 August 2017
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Section I – All change 1. Evolving role of the healthcare assistant (HCA) Section II – Some useful stuff 2. Understanding reflective practice 3. Understanding accountability and delegation 4. A bit about protocols Section III – Before you start: the basic ingredients 5. Communicating with patients 6. Simple assertiveness skills 7. Confidentiality, consent and record keeping 8. Health promotion: the key messages Section IV – Core skills 9. Keeping it clean – hand decontamination 10. Physiological measurements 11. Understanding blood pressure and performing accurate measurements 12. Understanding the heart and performing the electrocardiograph (ECG) 13. Venepuncture best practice 14. Understanding lung function and disease: performing accurate lung function testing 15. Kidney function and urine: performing accurate urinalysis 16. Skin and the healing process: basic wound care 17. Chaperoning Section V – Finishing touches 18. Training for the future

Zoe Rawles is a freelance nurse practitioner and healthcare trainer for HealthTrain in Wales, UK