Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners

<p>This fully updated and revised edition of <em>Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners</em> is a practical and comprehensive text designed to equip you with the necessary clinical skills for your profession. This book: </p><p>• equips you with the knowledge to provide the safest and most effective patient care possible;</p><p>• provides evidence-based guidelines to ensure best practice that is matched to the National Occupational Standards and the Care Certificate;</p><p>• includes new chapters on administering injections ear irrigation and examining the feet of people with diabetes and an entirely rewritten chapter on protocols;</p><p>• addresses the evolving role of the healthcare assistant and training opportunities;</p><p>• supplies comprehensive coverage of both primary and secondary care settings with an emphasis on primary care;</p><p>• covers accountability communication skills confidentiality and reflection; and</p><p>• uses a light-hearted and accessible style with definitions case studies and activities to aid understanding.</p><p>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.</p>