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O*NET detailed work activityCommunicate detailed medical information to patients or family members
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This depends on human connection: empathy, trust, being physically present and responding to someone in real time. People can tell the difference.
Part of Explain medical information to patients or family members, under the O*NET work activity group Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 20 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Provide patients with information needed to promote health, reduce risk factors, or prevent disease or disability.
- Discuss illnesses and treatments with patients and family members.
- Discuss testing options and the associated risks, benefits and limitations with patients and families to assist them in making informed decisions.
- Provide patients with proposed treatment plans and cost estimates.
- Provide counseling to patient and family members by providing information, education, or reassurance.
- Provide information and advice regarding drug interactions, side effects, dosage, and proper medication storage.
- Communicate examination results or diagnostic information to referring physicians, patients, or families.
- Inform patients or families of neurological diagnoses and prognoses, or benefits, risks and costs of various treatment plans.
- Educate patients on ophthalmic medical procedures, conditions of the eye, and appropriate use of medications.
- Provide patients with information about the inheritance of conditions such as cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, and various forms of cancer.
- Discuss medical health of pets with clients, such as post-operative status.
- Provide information about the physical and emotional processes involved in the pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum periods.
- Provide technical information about test results to physicians, family members, or researchers.
- Collaborate with patients to plan for future health care needs or to coordinate transitions and referrals.
- Provide patients with contraceptive and family planning information.
- Inform patients of how to prepare and supply birth sites.
- Communicate test results or technical information to patients, physicians, family members, or researchers.
- Present clients with information required to make informed health care and treatment decisions.
- Answer inquiries concerning the progress of medical cases, within the limits of confidentiality laws.