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O*NET detailed work activityMonitor patient conditions during treatments, procedures, or activities
Stays humanHands-on care
23 jobs34 tasks
Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.
Part of Monitor health conditions of humans or animals, under the O*NET work activity group Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 34 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Assist anesthesiologists in monitoring of patients, including electrocardiogram (EKG), direct arterial pressure, central venous pressure, arterial blood gas, hematocrit, or routine measurement of temperature, respiration, blood pressure or heart rate.
- Observe and care for patients throughout examinations to ensure their safety and comfort.
- Explain procedures and observe patients to ensure safety and comfort during scan.
- Monitor patients' conditions, and reevaluate treatments, as necessary.
- Monitor patients for changes in status and indications of conditions such as sepsis or shock and institute appropriate interventions.
- Monitor patients' responses, including skin color, pupil dilation, pulse, heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, ventilation, or urine output, using invasive and noninvasive techniques.
- Monitor patient before, during, and after anesthesia and counteract adverse reactions or complications.
- Monitor patients during tests or surgeries, using electroencephalographs (EEG), evoked potential (EP) instruments, or video recording equipment.
- Monitor patient's physiological responses to therapy, such as vital signs, arterial blood gases, or blood chemistry changes, and consult with physician if adverse reactions occur.
- Monitor and continually assess operating room conditions, including patient and surgical team needs.
- Prescribe or administer medications, such as anti-epileptic drugs, and monitor patients for behavioral and cognitive side effects.
- Provide clinical oversight of exercise for participants at all risk levels.
- Observe and reassure patients during treatment and report unusual reactions to physician or turn equipment off if unexpected adverse reactions occur.
- Administer medications to patients and monitor patients for reactions or side effects.
- Monitor patients' conditions and reactions, reporting abnormal signs to physician.
- Observe the behavior and condition of animals and monitor their clinical symptoms.
- Monitor patients' comfort and safety during tests, alerting physicians to abnormalities or changes in patient responses.
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
- Evaluate patients' post-surgical or post-anesthesia responses, taking appropriate corrective actions or requesting consultation if complications occur.
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions.
- Monitor patients' blood pressure and heart rate using electrocardiogram (EKG) equipment during diagnostic or therapeutic procedures to notify the physician if something appears wrong.
- Administer anesthesia to animals, under the direction of a veterinarian, and monitor animals' responses to anesthetics so that dosages can be adjusted.
- Detect and respond to adverse drug reactions, with special attention to vulnerable populations such as infants, children, pregnant and lactating women, or older adults.
- Identify patients at risk of complications due to nutritional status.
- Monitor or evaluate medical conditions of patients in collaboration with other health care professionals.
- Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations.
- Administer blood and blood products, monitoring patients for signs and symptoms related to transfusion reactions.
- Monitor patient intra-operative status, including patient position, vital signs, or volume and color of blood.
- Observe patients' vital signs to assess physical condition.
- Set up or monitor the administration of oxygen or medications.
- Monitor cardiac patients, using electrocardiography devices, such as a holter monitor.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Assess characteristics of patients' pain, such as intensity, location, or duration, using standardized clinical measures.
- Administer blood and blood product transfusions or intravenous infusions, monitoring patients for adverse reactions.
- Attend high-risk and caesarian section infant deliveries to provide neonatal respiratory care as needed.