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O*NET detailed work activityInform medical professionals regarding patient conditions and care
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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 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, 2 AI-assist, 23 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Write information in medical records or provide narrative summaries to communicate patient information to other health care providers.
- Confer with medical professionals regarding image-based diagnoses.
- Communicate with other health care professionals regarding patients' conditions and care.
- Monitor patients' physical and emotional well-being and report unusual behavior or physical ailments to medical staff.
- Act as liaison with physicist and supportive care personnel.
- Communicate with patients' primary care physicians upon admission, when treatment plans change, or at discharge to maintain continuity and quality of care.
- Collaborate with others to design or implement interdisciplinary treatment programs.
- Consult with a pathologist to determine a final diagnosis when abnormal cells are found.
- Communicate with dispatchers or treatment center personnel to provide information about situation, to arrange reception of survivors, or to receive instructions for further treatment.
- Inform physician of patient's condition during anesthesia.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Monitor patient's physiological responses to therapy, such as vital signs, arterial blood gases, or blood chemistry changes, and consult with physician if adverse reactions occur.
- Interpret laboratory results and communicate findings to patients or physicians.
- Observe and reassure patients during treatment and report unusual reactions to physician or turn equipment off if unexpected adverse reactions occur.
- Write patient discharge summaries and send them to primary care physicians.
- Monitor patients' conditions and reactions, reporting abnormal signs to physician.
- Monitor patients' comfort and safety during tests, alerting physicians to abnormalities or changes in patient responses.
- Assess and report the progress of recovering athletes to coaches or physicians.
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions.
- Observe, record, and report to physician the patient's condition or injury, the treatment provided, and reactions to drugs or treatment.
- Observe and monitor patient food intake and body weight, and report changes, progress, and dietary problems to dietician.
- Recognize and report abnormalities in the color, size, shape, composition, or pattern of cells.
- Provide sample analysis results to physicians to assist diagnosis.
- Prepare and submit reports and charts to treatment team to reflect patients' reactions and evidence of progress or regression.
- Set up 24-hour Holter and event monitors, scan and interpret tapes, and report results to physicians.
- Observe, record, and report to physician the patient's condition or injury, the treatment provided, and reactions to drugs or treatment.