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O*NET detailed work activityAdvise patients on effects of health conditions or treatments
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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 Advise patients or clients on medical issues, under the O*NET work activity group Providing Consultation and Advice to Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 12 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Communicate likely outcomes of medical diseases or traumatic conditions to patients or their representatives.
- Advise patients about recommended courses of treatment.
- Counsel patients about drug regimens and possible side effects or interactions with other substances, such as food supplements, over-the-counter (OTC) medications, or herbal remedies.
- Provide genetic counseling in specified areas of clinical genetics, such as obstetrics, pediatrics, oncology and neurology.
- Counsel patients and families on communication strategies and the effects of hearing loss.
- Counsel patients or others on the background of neurological disorders including risk factors, or genetic or environmental concerns.
- Counsel outpatients or other patients during office visits.
- Dispense herbal formulas and inform patients of dosages and frequencies, treatment duration, possible side effects, and drug interactions.
- Advise athletes on ways that substances, such as herbal remedies, could affect drug testing results.
- Educate patients regarding treatment plans, physiological reactions to treatment, or post-treatment care.