Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners

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Main Author: Rawles, Zoë
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Routledge, 2019
Edition:2nd ed.
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505 0 |a Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Author biography; Illustrator biography; Foreword; Introduction; Section I: All change; Chapter 1: The evolving role of the healthcare assistant; HEALTHCARE ASSISTANTS AND ASSISTANT PRACTITIONERS; WHAT IS HAPPENING ABOUT REGULATION?; WHAT ABOUT NURSING ASSOCIATES?; Section II: Some useful stuff; Chapter 2: Understanding reflective practice; WHAT IS REFLECTION AND WHAT IS THE POINT?; HOW CAN WE LEARN FROM OUR EXPERIENCES?; SO, WHAT DO YOU WRITE ABOUT AND HOW DO YOU WRITE IT?; SOME FRAMEWORKS FOR REFLECTION 
505 8 |a Chapter 3: Accountability and delegationDEFINING ACCOUNTABILITY; DELEGATION; Chapter 4: Using protocols; THE PURPOSE OF A PROTOCOL; Chapter 5: Communicating with patients; WHY IS GOOD COMMUNICATION SUCH AN INTEGRAL PART OF EFFECTIVE HEALTHCARE?; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION; OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO COMMUNICATION; WHAT ABOUT PATIENTS WITH DEMENTIA?; Chapter 6: Simple assertiveness skills; WHAT IS ASSERTIVENESS?; Chapter 7: Confidentiality, consent and record-keeping; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONSENT; RECORD-KEEPING; Chapter 8: Health promotion: the key messages; WHAT IS 'HEALTH'? 
505 8 |a WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD OF HEALTH PROMOTION?HEALTHY EATING AND ALCOHOL AWARENESS; TIPS FOR HEALTHY EATING; HOW DO WE HELP OUR PATIENTS LOSE WEIGHT?; INCREASING ACTIVITY LEVELS; SMOKING CESSATION; TIPS FOR ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO STOP SMOKING; Chapter 9: Keeping it clean: hand decontamination; SETTING THE SCENE; WHAT IS INFECTION?; HOW IS INFECTION SPREAD?; HAND-WASHING: THE PROCEDURE; THE PROBLEM WITH GLOVES; LEGISLATION AND GUIDELINES YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT; TIME TO REFLECT; Chapter 10: Chaperoning; THE AYLING INQUIRY; WHAT IS A CHAPERONE?; CHAPERONING: THE PROCEDURE (SEE FIGURE 10.1) 
505 8 |a TIME TO REFLECTSection III: Core skills; Chapter 11: Physiological measurements; HEIGHT, WEIGHT, BODY MASS INDEX (BMI) AND WAIST MEASUREMENT; RECORDING HEIGHT, WEIGHT AND WAIST: THE PROCEDURE; THE PULSE; RECORDING THE RADIAL OR BRACHIAL PULSE: THE PROCEDURE (SEE FIGURE 11.4); RESPIRATORY RATE; PULSE OXIMETRY; TEMPERATURE; PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS QUIZ; TIME TO REFLECT; Chapter 12: Understanding and measuring blood pressure accurately; WHAT IS BLOOD PRESSURE?; WHAT IS HYPERTENSION AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?; SO, WHAT'S ALL THE FUSS ABOUT? 
505 8 |a AUSCULTATORY OR MANUAL METHOD FOR CHECKING THE BP: WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO?MEASURING BLOOD PRESSURE:THE PROCEDURE (SEE FIGURE 12.2); BLOOD PRESSURE QUIZ; TIME TO REFLECT; Chapter 13: Understanding the heart: how to perform the electrocardiograph (ECG); HISTORY OF THE ECG; WHAT DOES THE HEART DO?; HEART ANATOMY; WHAT MAKES THE HEART CONTRACT?; PQRST; HEART DISEASE; THE 12-LEAD ECG; RECORDING AN ECG: THE PROCEDURE (adapted from British Cardiovascular Society 2017); HEART AND ECG QUIZ; TIME TO REFLECT; Chapter 14: Venepuncture and capillary blood testing: best practice 
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