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O*NET detailed work activityMonitor patient progress or responses to treatments
Stays humanHands-on care
33 jobs35 tasks
Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.
Part of Monitor health conditions of humans or animals, under the O*NET work activity group Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 3 AI-assist, 32 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Observe patients during treatments to compile and evaluate data on their responses and progress and provide results to physical therapist in person or through progress notes.
- Monitor patients' conditions and progress and reevaluate treatments as necessary.
- Monitor patients' fluid intake and output to detect emerging problems, such as fluid and electrolyte imbalances.
- Monitor patients' medication usage and results.
- Decide when patients have recovered or stabilized enough to be sent to another room or ward or to be sent home following outpatient surgery.
- Assess patients' pain levels or sedation requirements.
- Assess patients' pain levels or sedation requirements.
- Monitor patients' conditions and progress and reevaluate treatments as necessary.
- Monitor patients' progress and adjust treatments accordingly.
- Monitor patients' conditions and progress and reevaluate treatments as necessary.
- Monitor patients' conditions and progress and reevaluate treatments as necessary.
- Observe and document client reactions, progress, or other outcomes related to art therapy.
- Monitor patients' progress and provide ongoing observation of hearing or balance status.
- Observe and document client reactions, progress, or other outcomes related to music therapy.
- Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity.
- Observe, record, and report to physician the patient's condition or injury, the treatment provided, and reactions to drugs or treatment.
- Observe, analyze, and record patients' participation, reactions, and progress during treatment sessions, modifying treatment programs as needed.
- Monitor effectiveness of pain management interventions, such as medication or spinal injections.
- Visit and observe patients on hospital rounds or house calls, updating charts, ordering therapy, and reporting back to physician.
- Observe patients during treatment to compile and evaluate data on patients' responses and progress and report to physical therapist.
- Monitor and document patients' progress during post-anesthesia period.
- Observe and monitor patient food intake and body weight, and report changes, progress, and dietary problems to dietician.
- Monitor clients' progress to determine whether changes in rehabilitation plans are needed.
- Administer anesthetics during surgery and monitor the effects on animals.
- Monitor patients' conditions and progress, and reevaluate treatments, as necessary.
- Observe, record, and report to physician the patient's condition or injury, the treatment provided, and reactions to drugs or treatment.
- Monitor patient's recovery, making follow-up visits and using postoperative assessment techniques, such as blood and imaging tests.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit.
- Monitor patients' performance in therapy activities, providing encouragement.
- Observe and record patients' progress, attitudes, and behavior and maintain this information in client records.
- Assess skin integrity or other body conditions upon completion of the procedure to determine if damage has occurred from body positioning.
- Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
- Observe patients' attendance, progress, attitudes, and accomplishments and record and maintain information in client records.
- Supervise the rehabilitation of injured athletes.
- Prescribe medications and observe patients' reactions, modifying prescriptions as needed.