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O*NET detailed work activityEvaluate patient functioning, capabilities, or health
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This is an accountable judgment call. Someone has to weigh the full situation and stand behind the decision, and that's you, often with legal or professional responsibility.
Part of Evaluate patient or client condition or treatment options, under the O*NET work activity group Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 1 AI-assist, 19 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Conduct primary patient assessments that include information from prior medical care.
- Assess patients' mental and physical status, based on the presenting symptoms and complaints.
- Assess patients' psychological or emotional needs, such as those relating to stress, fear of test results, financial issues, and marital conflicts to make referral recommendations or assist patients in managing test outcomes.
- Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health.
- Conduct assessments of patients' risk for harm to self or others.
- Evaluate athletes' readiness to play and provide participation clearances when necessary and warranted.
- Assess client functioning levels, strengths, and areas of need in terms of perceptual, sensory, affective, communicative, musical, physical, cognitive, social, spiritual, or other abilities.
- Assess patients for risk of suicide attempts.
- Assess patients' psychosocial status and needs, including areas such as sleep patterns, anxiety, grief, anger, and support systems.
- Assess physical performance requirements to aid in the development of individualized recovery or rehabilitation exercise programs.
- Observe and evaluate athletes' mental well-being.
- Assess the impact of illnesses or injuries on patients' health, function, growth, development, nutrition, sleep, rest, quality of life, or family, social and educational relationships.
- Conduct nutritional assessments of individuals, including obtaining and evaluating individuals' dietary histories, to plan nutritional programs.
- Assess clients' functioning in areas such as vision, orientation and mobility skills, social and emotional issues, cognition, physical abilities, and personal goals.
- Perform post-partum health assessments of mothers and babies at regular intervals.
- Provide clinical services to clients, such as assessing psychological problems and conducting psychotherapy.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.
- Monitor or evaluate medical conditions of patients in collaboration with other health care professionals.
- Examine and evaluate athletes prior to participation in sports activities to determine level of physical fitness or predisposition to injuries.
- Evaluate and treat problems related to the temperomandibular joint (TMJ).