Use this guide to find information resources related to healthcare assistants, healthcare support workers, assistant practitioners and trainee nursing associates including books, reports and journal articles.
Royal College of Nursing (2017) Accountability and delegation: a guide for the nursing team, London: RCN.
Royal College of Nursing (2015) Careers support: An RCN guide for health care assistants and assistant practitioners, London: RCN.
Royal College of Nursing (2018) The RCN money guide for HCA’s, HCSWs, APs, trainee nursing associates and nursing apprentices, London: RCN.
Rowe G, Counihan C, Ellis S et al. (2018) The handbook for nursing associates and assistant practitioners, Los Angeles: Sage.
Whelan A and Hughes E (2016) Clinical skills for healthcare assistants and assistant practitioners (2nd edition), Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.
Peate I (2017) Fundamentals of care: a textbook for health and social care assistants, Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.
Grainger A (2009) Essential practice for healthcare assistants, London: Mark Allen group.
Carter P (2017) Lippincott essentials for nursing assistants: a humanistic approach to caregiving (4th edition), Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer.
Carter P (2016) Lippincott textbook for nursing assistants: a humanistic approach to caregiving (4th edition), Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer.
Kessler I, Heron, P and Dopson S (2012) The modernization of the nursing workforce: valuing the healthcare assistant, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ndungu E (2013) How to do a good job better in health and social care: practical skills and induction guide for healthcare assistants, support workers, carers, students, parents and guardians, Oxford: Bettercare Skills Ltd.
Rawles Z (2014) Essential knowledge and skills for healthcare assistants, Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press.
Sorrentino S and Remmert L (2016) Mosby's textbook for nursing assistants (9th edition), St. Louis: Mosby.
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