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O*NET detailed work activityInstruct patients in the use of assistive equipment
AI-assistTrain & teach
10 jobs15 tasks
AI preps the materials: lesson outlines, quizzes, examples, practice scenarios. Reading the room and coaching people is still you.
Part of Train others to use equipment or products, 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, 15 AI-assist, 0 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Instruct patients in the use and care of orthoses and prostheses.
- Instruct clients in how to wear and care for eyeglasses.
- Train clients to use hearing aids or other augmentative communication devices.
- Teach cane skills, including cane use with a guide, diagonal techniques, and two-point touches.
- Train clients with visual impairments to use mobility devices or systems, such as human guides, dog guides, electronic travel aids (ETAs), and other adaptive mobility devices (AMDs).
- Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses.
- Assist patients to insert or remove contact lenses.
- Instruct patients in the care and use of contact lenses.
- Train clients to use adaptive equipment, such as large print, reading stands, lamps, writing implements, software, and electronic devices.
- Demonstrate assistive listening devices (ALDs) to clients.
- Instruct patients in the care and use of contact lenses.
- Offer health promotion or prevention activities, such as training people to use blood pressure devices or diabetes monitors.
- Instruct patients in use of prosthetic or orthotic devices.
- Teach patients to use home health care equipment.