Health Care Assistants, also known as Certified Nursing Assistants) perform much of the direct patient care in hospitals, clinics and nursing homes. They need to have good communication skills particularly in the challenging area of care of the elderly. In addition, they need to be able to communicate with other Health Care Professionals such as Registered Nurses, doctors and Allied Healthcare Workers and often contribute to discussions about patient care during Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings

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.

When reading and writing medical and nursing texts, Health Care Professionals require an understanding of medical, hospital and everyday health terminology. As well as this, Health Care Professionals need to be able to write fluently in patient notes, in referral letters and when completing care plans or care pathways. English for Medical Purposes: Spelling and Vocabulary provides spelling tips for common errors and helps develop extensive glossaries in the areas of patient care encountered in hospitals and also in the community. Common phrases and collocations are listed to familiarise students with the language they will use both in the workplace and in academic writing.

Background reading and activities used for EMP Teacher Training.Practical tips for developing texts and activities for health care professionals.

"This ten-unit course will improve spoken communication, vocabulary, grammar and report writing skills. It provides learners with an excellent working knowledge of medical terms, different medications and equipment, colloquial terms used by service users and policies and procedures used in the care environment. This book can be used in the classroom or for self study. The accompanying audio and answer key can be found online. English for Health and Social Care Workers corresponds to B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)."--Back cover.

Have you faced a medical emergency with a Spanish-speaking patient and found yourself unable to communicate with them? Do you want to have the ability to read through Spanish medical texts? Are you moving to a Spanish-speaking country and need to learn the language on a technical level? As a healthcare professional, you will come across all types of challenges in your daily work - as if the tasks you face already weren't tough enough, right? - so coping with each and every little thing can be a daunting task. One of the biggest roadblocks you can hit as a nurse, doctor or other health professional is a language barrier, in which you simply cannot understand or express what needs to be said. Everything slows down, and many times people suffer negative consequences because of it. For that precise reason, we have produced Medical Spanish: Real Spanish Medical Conversations for Healthcare Professionals to provide you with powerful, up-to-date and necessary tools to master the use of medical Spanish at all levels, from beginner to expert. With this book: Discover essential medical vocabulary, giving you the ability to express many terms that you will use on a day-to-day basis as a healthcare professional. Learn to recognize a person's health condition and make a diagnosis based on the information you have. Read through over 25 conversations detailing very specific, common situations that any healthcare professional will face, with a resolution to each conflict provided. Stay up to date with accurate, modern terminologies and procedures used - all while learning how to express them in Spanish! Make use of an incredible learning material that will boost your vocabulary and fluency skills in no-time! So with that said, all that's left for you is to purchase this book now and begin seeing the advantages that only Medical Spanish: Real Spanish Medical Conversations for Healthcare Professionals can provide you. Good luck!

Simplified Medical Spanish for Healthcare Professionals This book is specifically created for healthcare professionals: in particular, physicians, physicians' assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses (including, LVNs, LPNs), medical assistants, lab technicians, and ancillary medical staff. Interact with Spanish-speaking patients, even with zero prior background in the language. Learn basic Spanish medical phrases, key medical terminology, medical abbreviations, and more. Spanish-English and English-Spanish medical dictionary. Audio narrated by a native Spanish-speaker to practice your listening and pronunciation skills. Interact with Spanish-speaking patients Learn how to conduct patient interviews, speak with patients' family members, perform examinations, give instructions, provide diagnoses and prescriptions, and deal with several other medical scenarios - all in Spanish. The Most Useful Medical Spanish Vocabulary This book will provide you with basic Spanish medical phrases, key medical terms, medical abbreviations, as well as a handy Spanish-English and English-Spanish medical dictionary towards the end of the book. Practical Medical Scenarios From the basics such as obtaining patients' information, conducting tests, providing diagnoses, handling emergencies, pregnancies, surgeries, and more, you will also find some background information complete with phrases to help you handle every medical scenario with ease. Pronunciation Guide and BONUS Audio Most of the other similar books in the market will provide you with a phonetic pronunciation guide such as the one available in this e-book. But what other materials available in the market don't have is a FREE supplementary audio that you can listen to anytime, anywhere. You can use the audio tracks to practice your listening skills and you can also use them for pronunciation practice. The high-quality audio provided to you is narrated by a native Spanish-speaker to help train your ear to the sound of authentic Spanish as spoken by natives. Get your copy today and start learning medical Spanish!