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O*NET detailed work activityFabricate medical devices
Stays humanHands-on care
11 jobs18 tasks
Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.
Part of Fabricate medical devices, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 3 AI-assist, 15 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
- Select materials and components to be used, based on device design.
- Construct and fabricate appliances, or supervise others constructing the appliances.
- Prepare or construct equipment, such as immobilization, treatment, or protection devices.
- Create or modify impressions for earmolds and hearing aid shells.
- Make and modify plaster casts of areas to be fitted with prostheses or orthoses to guide the device construction process.
- Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, and fitting the lenses into frames.
- Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications.
- Fabricate beam modifying devices, such as compensators, shields, and wedge filters.
- Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.
- Construct, maintain, or repair medical supportive devices.
- Make impressions for study casts.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Repair, rebuild, and modify prosthetic and orthopedic appliances.
- Design and fabricate appliances, such as space maintainers, retainers, and labial and lingual arch wires.
- Design, make, or fit prosthodontic appliances, such as space maintainers, bridges, or dentures, or write fabrication instructions or prescriptions for denturists or dental technicians.
- Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment.
- Make and fit prosthetic appliances.
- Fabricate patient immobilization devices, such as molds or casts, for radiation delivery.