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O*NET detailed work activityAssist healthcare practitioners during examinations or treatments
Stays humanHands-on care
13 jobs18 tasks
Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.
Part of Assist healthcare practitioners during medical procedures, 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, 18 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Provide veterinarians with the correct equipment or instruments, as needed.
- Take animals into treatment areas and assist with physical examinations by performing such duties as obtaining temperature, pulse, or respiration data.
- Assist pathologists or other physicians to collect cell samples by fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy or other method.
- Provide assistance to physicians or other technologists in the performance of more complex procedures.
- Assist anesthesiologists in performing anesthetic procedures, such as epidural or spinal injections.
- Provide assistance with animal euthanasia and the disposal of remains.
- Assist physicians with procedures such as bronchoscopy, endoscopy, endotracheal intubation, or elective cardioversion.
- Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments.
- Provide assistance to other healthcare personnel during dosimetry procedures and tumor localization.
- Assist ophthalmologists in diagnostic ophthalmic procedures, such as ultrasonography, fundus photography, and tonometry.
- Assist in the application of monitoring techniques, such as pulmonary artery catheterization, electroencephalographic spectral analysis, echocardiography, or evoked potentials.
- Assist audiologists in performing aural procedures, such as real ear measurements, speech audiometry, auditory brainstem responses, electronystagmography, and cochlear implant mapping.
- Perform advanced ophthalmic procedures, including electrophysiological, electrophysical, or microbial procedures.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Assist anesthesiologists in monitoring of patients, including electrocardiogram (EKG), direct arterial pressure, central venous pressure, arterial blood gas, hematocrit, or routine measurement of temperature, respiration, blood pressure or heart rate.
- Work as part of a team of physicians, nurses, or other healthcare professionals to manage patient care by assisting with medical procedures or related duties.
- Collaborate with or assist doctors, psychologists, or rehabilitation therapists in working with patients with cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities to treat, rehabilitate, and return patients to the community.
- Use a variety of testing techniques to assist doctors in cardiac or pulmonary research or to diagnose disorders.
- Assist hospital staff with patient care duties, such as providing transportation or setting up traction.