ISBN: 978-1-916019-90-4

Complete Care Skills (published 2019) is a new and essential textbook for the Level 5 Care Skills module, Level 5 Healthcare Support, Health Service Skills, Community Care, Nursing Studies and any course where healthcare is a component.

Complete Care Skills Content

• Focuses on person-centred and holistic care to meet the client’s needs and promote independence.

• Advocates that maintaining the dignity, respect and privacy of the client is a primary foundation for care-giving.

• Specifies various types of care equipment used to assist the client or carer perform various Activities of Daily Living.

• Emphasises the importance of hygiene for the dignity, health and wellbeing of the client as well as the prevention of spread of infectious disease.

• Explains the significance of practising good communication skills when delivering care.

• Details the importance of reporting changes in client’s condition and the careful and accurate documentation of all cares given.

• Introduces the key aspects of end of life care.

THE AUTHOR

Gerardine Power RGN, Dip in Healthcare, BA, H Dip in Education teaches variousHealthcare modules at Limerick College of Further Education, where she is theco-ordinator of the Nursing Studies program.

**Resources available: Powerpoint slides supplied to teachers who adopt the text as essential reading for their class.**