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O*NET detailed work activityCollaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment
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Part of Confer with healthcare or other professionals about patient care, under the O*NET work activity group Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 2 AI-assist, 63 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Coordinate administration of anesthetics with surgeons during operation.
- Collaborate with other health care professionals to plan, monitor, review, or evaluate the quality or effectiveness of drugs or drug regimens, providing advice on drug applications or characteristics.
- Work as part of a team of physicians, nurses, or other healthcare professionals to manage patient care by assisting with medical procedures or related duties.
- Confer with the patient, medical practitioners, or appropriate others to plan, implement, or assess the intervention program.
- Coordinate work with other emergency medical team members or police or fire department personnel.
- Collaborate with other health care professionals to develop and revise treatment plans, based on identified needs and assessment data.
- Collaborate with members of multidisciplinary health care teams to plan, manage, or assess patient treatments.
- Collaborate with other health care professionals and service providers to ensure optimal patient care.
- Collaborate with physicians, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, or other professionals to discuss treatment plans and progress.
- Coordinate work with nurses, social workers, rehabilitation therapists, pharmacists, psychologists, and other health care providers.
- Coordinate the care of patients with other health care professionals or support staff.
- Confer with other medical professionals to determine type and method of anesthetic or sedation to render patient insensible to pain.
- Collaborate with other professionals, such as restorative dentists and orthodontists, to plan treatment.
- Coordinate orthodontic services with other dental and medical services.
- Consult or coordinate with other rehabilitative professionals, including physical and occupational therapists, rehabilitation nurses, speech pathologists, neuropsychologists, behavioral psychologists, social workers, or medical technicians.
- Coordinate work with clerical personnel or other technologists and technicians.
- Comfort patients during exams, or request sedatives or other medication from physicians for patients with anxiety or claustrophobia.
- Coordinate sports care activities with other experts, including specialty physicians and surgeons, athletic trainers, physical therapists, or coaches.
- Collaborate with general dentists, specialists, and other health professionals to develop solutions to dental and oral health concerns.
- Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans.
- Consult with other professionals about patients' neurological conditions.
- Coordinate physical medicine and rehabilitation services with other medical activities.
- Coordinate neurological services with other health care team activities.
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
- Consult with or provide consulting services to other physicians.
- Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.
- Consult with physicians about ordering and interpreting tests or providing treatments.
- Consult with physicians and health care personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of patient or client.
- Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
- Supervise or collaborate with therapy team.
- Participate in patients' care meetings and conferences.
- Confer with members of treatment team to plan and evaluate therapy programs.
- Coordinate with treatment center personnel to obtain patients' vital statistics and medical history, to determine the circumstances of the emergency, and to administer emergency treatment.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary team members, including psychiatrists, psychologists, or nursing staff, to develop, implement, or evaluate treatment plans.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of health professionals to provide optimal patient care.
- Consult with other health professionals to provide optimal patient care, referring patients to traditional health care professionals as necessary.
- Coordinate radiological services with other medical activities.
- Collaborate with or assist doctors, psychologists, or rehabilitation therapists in working with patients with cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities to treat, rehabilitate, and return patients to the community.
- Confer with other professionals on client's treatment team to develop, coordinate, or integrate treatment plans.
- Confer with physicians to formulate specifications and prescriptions for orthopedic or prosthetic devices.
- Consult with other professionals about patients' neurological conditions.
- Discuss with surgeon the nature of the surgical procedure, including operative consent, methods of operative exposure, diagnostic or laboratory data, or patient-advanced directives or other needs.
- Confer with professionals on client's treatment team to develop, coordinate, or integrate treatment plans.
- Plan and conduct treatment programs for patients' hearing or balance problems, consulting with educators, physicians, nurses, psychologists, speech-language pathologists, and other health care personnel, as necessary.
- Coordinate with anesthesia personnel to maintain patient temperature.
- Collaborate with ophthalmologists, optometrists, or other specialists in the diagnosis, treatment, or management of conditions such as glaucoma, cataracts, and retinal diseases.
- Consult with psychiatrists or other professionals when unusual or complex cases are encountered.
- Work with multidisciplinary teams to assess and rehabilitate recipients of implanted hearing devices through auditory training and counseling.
- Participate in treatment team conferences regarding diagnosis or treatment of difficult cases.
- Collaborate with specialists, such as rehabilitation counselors, speech pathologists, and occupational therapists, to provide client solutions.
- Collaborate with plastic surgeons and dermatologists to provide patients with preoperative and postoperative skin care.
- Collaborate with engineers or physicians to institute control or remedial measures for hazardous or potentially hazardous conditions or equipment.
- Coordinate work with other emergency medical team members or police or fire department personnel.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Evaluate patients' post-surgical or post-anesthesia responses, taking appropriate corrective actions or requesting consultation if complications occur.
- Coordinate work with physicians or other healthcare team members, including providing assistance during invasive procedures.
- Manage anesthesiological services, coordinating them with other medical activities and formulating plans and procedures.
- Evaluate patients' laboratory and medical records, requesting assistance from other practitioners when necessary.
- Participate in and write reports for meetings regarding patients' progress, such as individualized educational planning (IEP) meetings, in-service meetings, or intervention assistance team meetings.
- Consult with, or refer patients to, appropriate specialists when conditions exceed the scope of practice or expertise.
- Consult with and refer patients to ophthalmologist or other health care practitioner if additional medical treatment is determined necessary.
- Consult with or refer patients to appropriate specialists when conditions exceed the scope of practice or expertise.
- Consult with or refer patients to appropriate health practitioners when necessary.
- Consult with and refer clients to additional medical or educational services.
- Collaborate with physicians to develop and implement comprehensive rehabilitation programs for athletic injuries.
- Attend interdisciplinary meetings with other health care professionals to discuss patient care.