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O*NET detailed work activityAdminister basic health care or medical treatments
Stays humanHands-on care
22 jobs29 tasks
Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.
Part of Administer basic health care or medical treatments, under the O*NET work activity group Assisting and Caring for Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 29 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Provide patients with direct family planning services, such as inserting intrauterine devices, dispensing oral contraceptives, and fitting cervical barriers, including cervical caps or diaphragms.
- Conduct most treatment sessions independently, in accordance with the long-term treatment plan and under the general direction of the patient's physician.
- Administer bedside or personal care, such as ambulation or personal hygiene assistance.
- Give enemas and perform catheterizations, ear flushes, intravenous feedings, or gavages.
- Provide treatment to sick or injured animals, or contact veterinarians to secure treatment.
- Observe children's behavior for irregularities, take temperature, transport children to doctor, or administer medications, as directed, to maintain children's health.
- Apply protective coating of fluoride to teeth.
- Provide emergency first aid to sick or injured animals.
- Administer prescribed medications to animals.
- Clean teeth, using dental instruments.
- Insert or remove urinary bladder catheters.
- Administer traction to relieve neck or back pain, using intermittent or static traction equipment.
- Perform enemas, catheterizations, ear flushes, intravenous feedings, or gavages.
- Administer traction to relieve neck or back pain, using intermittent or static traction equipment.
- Treat patients for routine physical health problems.
- Attend high-risk and caesarian section infant deliveries to provide neonatal respiratory care as needed.
- Manage newborn care during the first weeks of life.
- Administer therapeutic medication and advise patron to seek medical treatment for chronic or contagious scalp conditions.
- Anesthetize and inoculate animals, according to instructions.
- Perform therapeutic wound care.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
- Help physicians examine and treat patients, handing them instruments or materials or performing such tasks as giving injections or removing sutures.
- Examine and clean patients' ear canals.
- Insert peripheral or central intravenous catheters.
- Perform healthcare-related tasks, such as monitoring vital signs and medication, under the direction of registered nurses or physiotherapists.
- Place invasive intravascular monitors into patients.
- Implement appropriate follow-up care plans.
- Provide post-mortem care.
- Administer medications or treatments, such as catheterizations, suppositories, irrigations, enemas, massages, or douches, as directed by a physician or nurse.