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Communicate patient status to other health practitioners

This depends on human connection: empathy, trust, being physically present and responding to someone in real time. People can tell the difference.

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, 0 AI-assist, 3 stays human).

Tasks built on this activity

• Report to supervisors, verbally or in writing, on patients' progress, attitudes, and behavior.Stays human Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Report to supervisors or therapists, verbally or in writing, on patients' progress, attitudes, attendance, and accomplishments.Stays human Occupational Therapy Aides

Tasks where it is part of the work

• Observe patients during treatments to compile and evaluate data on their responses and progress and provide results to physical therapist in person or through progress notes.Stays human Physical Therapist Assistants