Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants

Covering all the essential components of healthcare assistant and assistant practitioner roles, Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants 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







Supplies comprehensive coverage of both primary and secondary care settings with an emphasis on the role in primary care







Includes information on accountability, communication skills, confidentiality and reflection







Uses a light-hearted and accessible style, with definitions, case studies and activities to aid understanding







Includes a Foreword written by Tanis Hand, HCA adviser at the Royal College of Nursing








This is an indispensable guide for all those training as healthcare assistants and assistant practitioners, as well as a useful reference for students embarking on a degree in nursing or health and social care.