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Essential Guide for Healthcare Assistants
Quay books, Aug 2009, Pages: 272
This book has two aims. First, to explain the theory that underpins the fundamental basics of care-giving which are part of the core duties of most healthcare assistants, regardless of the care setting or environment. Second, to increase the healthcare assistant’s job satisfaction by showing how the fundamental basics of care delivery fit into the wider framework of holistic yet individualised care.
These aims dovetail into the learning principles and learning techniques discussed in the book’s final chapter on work-based learning. On this point, it is hoped that this book will stimulate those readers who are interested in the possibility of progressing to become a registered healthcare practitioner, whether in nursing, midwifery, or the allied health professions such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, dietetics, podiatry, or chiropody, to consider undertaking the required vocational education and training.
This is a generalist textbook, and as such it covers most aspects of generic (applicable to all) practice. Fundamental practice is demonstrated in the chapters on maintaining privacy and dignity, infection control, understanding the skin in relation to personal hygiene, pressure ulcer prevention, and principles of wound healing and management, nutrition, elimination needs and catheter care, clinical observations, and communication and documentation.
The chapter on work-based learning will help you to maximise the learning opportunities that come your way by virtue of having direct contact with patients facing all sorts of situations. This will help improve and advance your knowledge, understanding, skills, and competence, which, in turn, ensures that the patient has a better experience, time after time. Certain other subjects covered are more specialised and include managing pain and providing comfort, caring for sick children, common mental health problems in older adults, caring for the person who has learning disabilities, and spirituality. This is because holistic care takes account of the need to meet not only a patient’s generic requirements, but any additional issues facing the patient, and/or the patient’s family. These can be either physical or emotional needs, or a combination of the two. Moreover some patient and service-user groups have a distinctive need to have even generic aspects of care modified and adapted to take account of their unique perspective of their situations. This includes children, older people, and those who have a learning disability or an intellectual impairment. The chapters focusing on the principles of care-giving for these patients will show you how you can apply an understanding of these principles so that you can approach the patient appropriately, explain the need for certain procedures in a way the patient can understand and accept, and perform the required act of care with no, or minimal, upset to the patient.
The chapters in this book can be read as stand-alone chapters, or the book can be read in sequence. Each chapter is referenced. Some of the chapters include information on practical care aspects discussed in other chapters. This is to emphasise that some fundamental aspects of care have an associated additional meaning, depending on the context of care. Examples include oral hygiene (mouth care) as part of fundamental personal hygiene. Malnourished or immune-suppressed patients might require additional oral care and certain special mouthwashes might be prescribed. This is therefore also discussed in the chapter on nutrition.
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