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O*NET detailed work activityAssist healthcare practitioners during surgery
Stays humanHands-on care
10 jobs15 tasks
Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.
Part of Assist healthcare practitioners during medical procedures, under the O*NET work activity group Assisting and Caring for Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 15 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Hand instruments and supplies to surgeons and surgeons' assistants, hold retractors and cut sutures, and perform other tasks as directed by surgeon during operation.
- Scrub arms and hands and assist the surgical team to scrub and put on gloves, masks, and surgical clothing.
- Pass instruments or supplies to surgeon during procedure.
- Assist members of surgical team with gowning or gloving.
- Coordinate work with physicians or other healthcare team members, including providing assistance during invasive procedures.
- Provide technical assistance to surgeons, surgical nurses, or anesthesiologists.
- Assist physicians in performing ophthalmic procedures, including surgery.
- Provide physicians with assistance during surgery or complicated medical procedures.
- Assist physicians in performing ophthalmic procedures, including surgery.
- Assist in the insertion, positioning, or suturing of closed-wound drainage systems.
- Assist physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac or peripheral vascular treatments, such as implanting pacemakers or assisting with balloon angioplasties to treat blood vessel blockages.
- Provide consultation and surgical assistance to other physicians and surgeons.
- Provide consultation and surgical assistance to other physicians and surgeons.