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O*NET detailed work activityConfer with other professionals to plan patient care
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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 Confer with healthcare or other professionals about patient care, under the O*NET work activity group Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 11 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Consult with hospitalists and other professionals, such as social workers, regarding patients' hospital admission, continued observation, transition of care, or discharge.
- Discuss patients' treatment plans with physicians and other medical professionals.
- Communicate and collaborate with other healthcare professionals involved with the care of a patient.
- Confer with physical therapy staff or others to discuss and evaluate patient information for planning, modifying, or coordinating treatment.
- Work as part of a team that may include psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, or social workers.
- Confer with physical therapy staff or others to discuss and evaluate patient information for planning, modifying, or coordinating treatment.
- Attend care plan meetings to review patient progress and update care plans.
- Coordinate patient care conferences.
- Consult with other health care professionals, such as physiotherapists, chiropractors, physicians, and psychologists, to develop treatment plans for clients.
- Talk to other physicians about patients to create a treatment plan.
- Consult with patient's other medical care specialists, such as cardiologist and endocrinologist, to determine if surgery is necessary.