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O*NET detailed work activityEngage patients in exercises or activities
Stays humanHands-on care
6 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 Train others on health or medical topics, under the O*NET work activity group Training and Teaching Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 8 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Instruct, motivate, safeguard, and assist patients as they practice exercises or functional activities.
- Instruct patients in proper body mechanics and in ways to improve functional mobility, such as aquatic exercise.
- Provide guidance to patients on exercises they can perform to improve mobility.
- Instruct, motivate, safeguard, or assist patients practicing exercises or functional activities, under direction of medical staff.
- Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
- Participate in recreational activities with patients, including card games, sports, or television viewing.
- Direct patients in simple prescribed exercises or in the use of braces or artificial limbs.
- Supervise patients in choosing and completing work assignments or arts and crafts projects.