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O*NET detailed work activityAdminister intravenous medications
Stays humanHands-on care
8 jobs13 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, 13 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Select, order, or administer pre-anesthetic medications.
- Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
- Administer medications, including those administered by injection.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Select, order, or administer anesthetics, adjuvant drugs, accessory drugs, fluids or blood products as necessary.
- Administer medications intravenously, by injection, orally, through gastric tubes, or by other methods.
- Perform therapeutic procedures, such as injections, immunizations, suturing and wound care, and infection management.
- Prepare prescribed solutions and administer local, intravenous, spinal, or other anesthetics, following specified methods and procedures.
- Administer drugs, orally or by injection, or perform intravenous procedures.
- Administer post-anesthesia medications or fluids to support patients' cardiovascular systems.
- Perform emergency pharmacological interventions.
- Respond to emergency situations by providing airway management, administering emergency fluids or drugs, or using basic or advanced cardiac life support techniques.
- Administer oral medications or hypodermic injections, following physician's prescriptions and hospital procedures.
- Postoperatively inject a subcutaneous local anesthetic agent to reduce pain.