1. Understanding the healthcare assistant role
2. Healthcare assistants: policy objectives and evidence base
3. Research focus, design, and methods
4. Healthcare assistants as a strategic resource
5. Backgrounds of healthcare assistants
6. The shape and nature of the healthcare assistant role
7. Consequences for healthcare assistants
8. Consequences for nurses
9. Consequences for patients
10. Summary and conclusions.
The modernization of the nursing workforce : valuing the healthcare assistant by Ian Kessler. ISBN 9780199694136. Published by Oxford University Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.