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O*NET detailed work activityMeasure the physical or physiological attributes of patients
Stays humanHands-on care
11 jobs15 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, 0 AI-assist, 15 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.
- Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
- Examine, interview, and measure patients to determine their appliance needs and to identify factors that could affect appliance fit.
- Take anatomical or functional ocular measurements of the eye or surrounding tissue, such as axial length measurements.
- Measure and take impressions of patients' jaws and teeth to determine the shape and size of dental prostheses, using face bows, dental articulators, recording devices, and other materials.
- Measure patients' body parts and mark locations where electrodes are to be placed.
- Measure corneal curvature with keratometers or ophthalmometers to aid in the diagnosis of conditions, such as astigmatism.
- Take anatomical or functional ocular measurements, such as axial length measurements, of the eye or surrounding tissue.
- Monitor fetal growth and well-being through heartbeat detection, body measurement, and palpation.
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.
- Measure corneal thickness, using pachymeter or contact ultrasound methods.
- Measure corneal curvature with keratometers or ophthalmometers to aid in the diagnosis of conditions, such as astigmatism.
- Measure the thickness of the retinal nerve, using scanning laser polarimetry techniques to aid in diagnosis of glaucoma.
- Study animal and human health and physiological processes.
- Measure amount of body fat, using such equipment as hydrostatic scale, skinfold calipers, or tape measures.