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O*NET detailed work activityTreat acute illnesses, infections, or injuries
Stays humanHands-on care
15 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 Treat injuries, illnesses, or diseases, 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, 18 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Treat children who have minor illnesses, acute and chronic health problems, and growth and development concerns.
- Diagnose or treat acute health care problems, such as illnesses, infections, or injuries.
- Manage and treat common health problems, such as infections, influenza or pneumonia, as well as serious, chronic, and complex illnesses, in adolescents, adults, and the elderly.
- Provide specialized direct and indirect care to inpatients and outpatients within a designated specialty, such as obstetrics, neurology, oncology, or neonatal care.
- Treat wounds or superficial lacerations.
- Treat infections of the oral cavity, salivary glands, jaws, and neck.
- Treat problems affecting the oral mucosa, such as mouth ulcers and infections.
- Restore function and aesthetics to traumatic injury survivors, or to individuals with diseases or congenital disabilities.
- Remove foreign bodies from the eye.
- Treat minor cuts, abrasions, or contusions.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Treat sick or injured animals by prescribing medication, setting bones, dressing wounds, or performing surgery.
- Prepare and apply sterile wound dressings.
- Treat or refer patients for primary care conditions, such as headaches, hypertension, urinary tract infections, upper respiratory infections, and dermatological conditions.
- Examine, evaluate and treat athletes who have been injured or who have medical problems such as exercise-induced asthma.
- Diagnose or treat performance-related conditions, such as sports injuries or repetitive-motion injuries.
- Perform primary care procedures such as suturing, splinting, administering immunizations, taking cultures, and debriding wounds.
- Provide health care, first aid, immunizations, or assistance in convalescence or rehabilitation in locations such as schools, hospitals, or industry.
- Perform advanced ophthalmic procedures, including electrophysiological, electrophysical, or microbial procedures.