"This fully updated and revised edition of Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners is a practical and comprehensive text designed to equip you with the necessary clinical skills for your profession." -- Provided by publisher.

The evolving role of the healthcare assistant -- Understanding reflective practice -- Accountability and delegation -- Using protocols -- Communicating with patients -- Simple assertiveness skills -- Confidentiality, consent and record keeping -- Health promotion : the key messages -- Keeping it clean. hand decontamination -- Chaperoning -- Physiological measurements -- Understanding and measuring blood pressure accurately -- Understanding the heart. How to perform the electrocardiograph (ECG) -- Venepuncture and capillary blood testing : best practice -- Kidney function and urine. performing accurate urinalysis -- Examining the feet of people with diabetes -- The skin and the healing process. basic wound care -- Understanding lung function and disease. Performing accurate lung function testing -- Administering injections -- Ear irrigation.