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O*NET detailed work activityRefer patients to other healthcare practitioners or health resources
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This is an accountable judgment call. Someone has to weigh the full situation and stand behind the decision, and that's you, often with legal or professional responsibility.
Part of Assist others to access additional services or resources, under the O*NET work activity group Assisting and Caring for Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 40 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Refer athletes for specialized consultation, physical therapy, or diagnostic testing.
- Refer patients to specialists or other practitioners.
- Refer patients to medical specialists, social services, or other professionals as appropriate.
- Treat or refer patients for primary care conditions, such as headaches, hypertension, urinary tract infections, upper respiratory infections, and dermatological conditions.
- Refer patients to medical specialists or other practitioners when necessary.
- Refer patient to medical specialist or other practitioner when necessary.
- Refer patient to medical specialist or other practitioner when necessary.
- Refer patients to physicians when symptoms indicative of systemic disorders, such as arthritis or diabetes, are observed in feet and legs.
- Consult with, or refer patients to, appropriate specialists when conditions exceed the scope of practice or expertise.
- Consult with and refer patients to ophthalmologist or other health care practitioner if additional medical treatment is determined necessary.
- Refer patients to other health care practitioners as necessary.
- Refer patients to ophthalmic surgeons or other physicians.
- Refer patients to additional medical or educational services, if needed.
- Consult with or refer patients to appropriate specialists when conditions exceed the scope of practice or expertise.
- Refer patients to specialists when condition exceeds experience, expertise, or scope of practice.
- Discharge patient from physical therapy when goals or projected outcomes have been attained and provide for appropriate follow-up care or referrals.
- Refer patients for more specialized treatments when conditions exceed the experience, expertise, or scope of practice of practitioner.
- Refer patients to specialists or community resources.
- Refer patient to medical specialist or other practitioner when necessary.
- Consult with or refer patients to appropriate health practitioners when necessary.
- Refer patients to other specialists, as needed.
- Refer patients to specialists for procedures such as ultrasounds or biophysical profiles.
- Provide, or refer patients to other providers for, education or counseling on topics such as genetic testing, newborn care, contraception, or breastfeeding.
- Refer patients requiring more specialized or complex treatment to psychiatrists, primary care physicians, or other medical specialists.
- Consult with and refer clients to additional medical or educational services.
- Inform patients and refer to appropriate practitioners when diagnosis reveals findings outside physical therapy.
- Refer clients to community resources or services.
- Refer patients to other health professionals or agencies when appropriate.
- Refer patients to other relevant services to provide continuity of care.
- Refer clients to other types of therapists when necessary.
- Refer patients for specialty consultations or treatments.
- Refer clients to services, such as eye care, health care, rehabilitation, and counseling, to enhance visual and life functioning or when condition exceeds scope of practice.
- Refer students or patients to specialized health resources or community agencies furnishing assistance.
- Recommend surgeons or surgical procedures.
- Refer patient to medical specialist or other practitioners when necessary.
- Refer patient to medical specialist or other practitioners when necessary.
- Identify tubal and ectopic pregnancies and refer patients for treatments.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Consult with other health professionals to provide optimal patient care, referring patients to traditional health care professionals as necessary.
- Provide medical care and consultation in many settings, prescribing medication and treatment and referring patients for surgery.
- Order diagnostic imaging procedures such as radiographs (x-rays), ultrasounds, mammograms, and bone densitometry tests, or refer patients to other health professionals for these procedures.