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O*NET detailed work activityTeach medical procedures or medical equipment use to patients
AI-assistTrain & teach
7 jobs9 tasks
AI preps the materials: lesson outlines, quizzes, examples, practice scenarios. Reading the room and coaching people is still you.
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, 9 AI-assist, 0 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Communicate with or instruct caregivers or family members on patient therapeutic activities or treatment plans.
- Provide clients with guidance and information about techniques for postural improvement and stretching, strengthening, relaxation, and rehabilitative exercises.
- Instruct patients in oral hygiene and plaque control programs.
- Educate or advise clients on animal health care, nutrition, or behavior problems.
- Train patients in the use of orthopedic braces, prostheses, or supportive devices.
- Train patients to use orthopedic braces, prostheses, or supportive devices.
- Perform postural drainage, percussions, or vibrations or teach deep breathing exercises to treat respiratory conditions.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Instruct, or assist in instructing, patients and families in home programs, basic living skills, or the care and use of adaptive equipment.
- Instruct patients and families in work, social, and living skills, the care and use of adaptive equipment, and other skills to facilitate home and work adjustment to disability.