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O*NET detailed work activityCare for women during pregnancy and childbirth
Stays humanHands-on care
3 jobs8 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, 1 AI-assist, 7 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients.
- Care for and treat women during prenatal, natal, and postnatal periods.
- Provide primary health care, including pregnancy and childbirth, to women.
- Identify, monitor, or treat pregnancy-related problems such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, pre-term labor, or retarded fetal growth.
- Provide comfort and relaxation measures for mothers in labor through interventions such as massage, breathing techniques, hydrotherapy, or music.
- Respond to breech birth presentations by applying methods such as exercises or external version.