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Clinical Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners, 2nd Edition

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ISBN: 978-1-118-25641-1

May 2016

Wiley-Blackwell

368 pages

Description

Clinical Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners is an accessible, easy-to-read guide, outlining the fundamental and core skills integral to clinical practice.

Fully updated in its second edition, this book is divided into three sections; the first looks at fundamental skills applicable to all staff, such as accountability, communication and record keeping. Section two explores core clinical skills such as respiratory care, pulse, blood glucose management and catheter care. Section three outlines complex clinical skills that require more in-depth training, such as medication and intravenous cannulation.

An invaluable resource for healthcare assistants and assistant practitioners, this book will also be of use to newly qualified practitioners, and students in health and social care.

About the Author

Angela Whelan is a Senior Lecturer, Teaching and Learning Fellow, and Programme Lead, in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at Edge Hill University, UK.

Elaine Hughes is a Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing, Deputy Programme Co-ordinator BSc(Hons), and a SOLSTICE Fellow, in the Faculty of Health at Edge Hill University, UK.

New to Edition

- Now with a broader focus and market- applicable to Assistant Practitioners as well as Health Care Assistants

- Includes a wider variety of skills and procedures

- Improved and updated illustrations

- More information on continuing professional development

- Updated references and further reading

Features
  • An essential handbook for all Assistant Practitioners and Health Care Assistants
  • Provides readers with the fundamentals skills integral to clinical practice
  • Accessible and user-friendly, with learning objectives, reflection points, illustrations, examples, case studies, and further reading in each chapter