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O*NET detailed work activityExamine patients to assess general physical condition
Stays humanHands-on care
29 jobs40 tasks
Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.
Part of Examine people or animals to assess health conditions or physical characteristics, under the O*NET work activity group Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 2 AI-assist, 38 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Examine children regularly to assess their growth and development.
- Examine patients to obtain information about their physical condition.
- Examine patient, obtain medical history, and use diagnostic tests to determine risk during surgical, obstetrical, and other medical procedures.
- Conduct complete skin examinations.
- Evaluate the functioning of the neuromuscularskeletal system and the spine using systems of chiropractic diagnosis.
- Perform physical examinations by taking vital signs, checking neurological reflexes, examining breasts, or performing pelvic examinations.
- Diagnose health problems by reviewing patients' health and medical histories, questioning, observing, and examining patients and interpreting x-rays.
- Examine patients to obtain information about functional status of areas, such as vision, physical strength, coordination, reflexes, sensations, language skills, cognitive abilities, and mental status.
- Examine animals to detect and determine the nature of diseases or injuries.
- Examine patients to assess mobility, strength, communication, or cognition.
- Conduct physical examinations of patients.
- Assess patients' general physical appearance to make diagnoses.
- Perform pre-anesthetic screenings, including physical evaluations and patient interviews, and document results.
- Check for side effects, such as skin irritation, nausea, or hair loss to assess patients' reaction to treatment.
- Conduct physical examinations and physiological function tests for diagnostic purposes.
- Perform routine or annual physical examinations.
- Examine and clean patients' ear canals.
- Examine, evaluate and treat athletes who have been injured or who have medical problems such as exercise-induced asthma.
- Observe, interview, and assess patients to identify care needs.
- Examine or conduct laboratory or diagnostic tests on patients to provide information on general physical condition or mental disorder.
- Take and record measures of patients' physical condition, using devices such as thermometers or blood pressure gauges.
- Examine and evaluate athletes prior to participation in sports activities to determine level of physical fitness or predisposition to injuries.
- Provide routine physical health screenings to detect or monitor problems such as heart disease and diabetes.
- Conduct physical tests, such as functional capacity evaluations, to determine injured workers' capabilities to perform the physical demands of their jobs.
- Inspect and test horses, sheep, poultry, or other animals to detect the presence of communicable diseases.
- Examine patient to obtain information on medical condition and surgical risk.
- Examine fetuses, infants, children, and adolescents, and diagnose health issues to determine need for intervention, such as surgery.
- Examine patient to obtain information on medical condition and surgical risk.
- Perform physical examinations, make tentative diagnoses, and treat patients en route to hospitals or at disaster site triage centers.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Examine patients with problems related to ocular motility, binocular vision, amblyopia, or strabismus.
- Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.
- Examine patients or order, perform, and interpret diagnostic tests to obtain information on medical condition and determine diagnosis.
- Record athletes' medical histories, and perform physical examinations.
- Administer hearing tests and examine patients to collect information on type and degree of impairment, using specialized instruments and electronic equipment.
- Examine, interview, and measure patients to determine their appliance needs and to identify factors that could affect appliance fit.
- Test and measure patient's strength, motor development and function, sensory perception, functional capacity, or respiratory or circulatory efficiency and record data.
- Perform and document an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention.
- Monitor fetal growth and well-being through heartbeat detection, body measurement, and palpation.
- Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations.
- Assess clients' cognitive abilities and physical and emotional needs to determine appropriate interventions.