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O*NET detailed work activityExplain medical procedures or test results to patients or family members
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This depends on human connection: empathy, trust, being physically present and responding to someone in real time. People can tell the difference.
Part of Explain medical information to patients or family members, under the O*NET work activity group Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 26 stays human).
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- Explain procedures and discuss test results or prescribed treatments with patients.
- Prepare patient for exam by explaining procedure, transferring patient to ultrasound table, scrubbing skin and applying gel, and positioning patient properly.
- Explain procedures and discuss test results or prescribed treatments with patients and parents or guardians.
- Explain procedures to patients, family members, staff members or others.
- Explain test procedures and safety precautions to patients and provide them with assistance during test procedures.
- Educate patients and family members about mental health and medical conditions, preventive health measures, medications, or treatment plans.
- Educate patients about diagnoses, prognoses, or treatments.
- Explain procedures and discuss test results or prescribed treatments with patients.
- Provide instructions to patients or family members concerning diagnoses or treatment plans.
- Explain testing procedures to patients, answering questions or reassuring patients, as needed.
- Explain testing procedures to patients to obtain cooperation and reduce anxiety.
- Explain exercise program or physiological testing procedures to participants.
- Interpret laboratory results and communicate findings to patients or physicians.
- Explain procedures and discuss test results or prescribed treatments with patients.
- Explain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) procedures to patients, patient representatives, or family members.
- Explain treatment procedures to patients to gain cooperation and allay fears.
- Provide information to the patient about the proposed intervention, its material risks and expected benefits, and any reasonable alternatives.
- Explain diagnostic procedures such as chorionic villus sampling (CVS), ultrasound, fetal blood sampling, and amniocentesis.
- Provide counseling to radiologic patients to explain the processes, risks, benefits, or alternative treatments.
- Inform coaches, trainers, or other interested parties regarding the medical conditions of athletes.
- Advise or inform guardians, relatives, or significant others of patients' conditions or treatment.
- Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
- Explain procedures and discuss test results or prescribed treatments with patients.
- Inform parents and guardians of child's health problems and surgical procedures through various channels, such as in-person and telecommunication systems.