Essential Practice for Healthcare Assistants

This book is specifically aimed at healthcare assistants, and is a comprehensive text covering all aspects of care of the patient.
It is written by healthcare assistants and cover the a wide range of topics:
* Safety issues
* Basic patient and residential care
* Special care
* Mental health
* Learning disabilities
* Paediatrics
* Women and maternity
* Men's care
* Caring for carers
* Home health care
* Lifting and moving patients
* Death and dying.

Keywords: Healthcare assistant, Bathing, Children, Clinical nursing, Continence, Fluids, Infection, Nutrition, Pain management, Palliative care, Privacy and dignity, Professional development, Wounds