
Care for your vulnerable person
Care home worker- support people with social and physical activities. Book and go with people to appointments and help them with personal care such as support with showering, dressing, eating and drinking.
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Assist clients in the safe with personal tasks.
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Perform light housekeeping tasks.
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Accompany clients to medical appointments.
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Observe, monitor and record clients' physical and emotional well-being.
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Promptly report any changes to senior staff.
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Encourage clients to participate in social and recreational activities.
Residential support worker- provide advice, assistance and support to young people to attend to their practical, physical and emotional needs and act as an appropriate role model to work closely with them and enable them to address their difficulties and achieve their optimum potential.
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Maintain a high quality of care and support.
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Provide a caring, supportive and nurturing environment.
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Establish positive relationships with old people and always offer them unconditional and positive regard.
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Ensure that each old person’s care plan is followed and amended as appropriate to reflect their changing needs.
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Attend to practical matters in relation to care.
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Act as a key worker or co worker for an old person to ensure that the concerned person’s care plans are up to date.
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Provide a positive role model to offer advice, guidance and assistance where appropriate.
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Establish relationships which old people perceive to be positive, warm and rewarding.
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Provide emotional support at times of difficulty or stress.
Nursing home administrator- plan how to care for residents' needs, coordinate with nursing staff to provide treatment, regularly monitor residents to ensure compliance and make any necessary changes to improve care.
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Manage the day to day operations of the facility keep on track for its long term goals and mission.
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Coordinate and provide leadership to each clinical, managerial and custodial team and ensure that they work together effectively.
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Hire and/or fire staff and employees at every level.
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Ensure the facility operate in compliance with all regulations.
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Coordinate with clinical staff to ensure residents’ individual care plans.
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Provide regular safety and compliance training.
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Create and maintain a budget.
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Oversee billing and set fees.
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Act as a liaison between staff, residents and families.
Healthcare administrator- oversee the day to day administrative operations of hospital and other healthcare facilities.
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Monitor the department’s budget and prepare accurate reports about your findings.
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Keep detailed records of medical and office supplies stock.
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Inform concerns of new policies and/or changes.
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Develop work schedules for all concerns.
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Coordinate with doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals.
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Respond to questions from doctors, nurses and patients in a timely manner.
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Ensure patient medical records are kept up to date.
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Keep records of all expenses and recommend techniques to reduce costs.
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Ensure for all to comply with the current healthcare laws and regulations.
Advocacy worker- support vulnerable people to make decisions and have their voice heard when decisions are being made about their lives. Secure people's rights such as accessing services and ensure that people are involved in their own care and support planning.
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Explore options to help people make decisions about their own lives.
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Assist people to secure their rights to the help they need.
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Enable people to self advocate and represent themselves.
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Represent a person and speak up on their behalf.
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Help people access services.
Nurse- care for patients, communicate with doctors, administer medicine and check vital signs.
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Assess and plan nursing care requirements.
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Provide presurgical or postsurgical care.
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Monitor and administer medication and intravenous infusions.
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Take patient samples, pulses, temperatures and blood pressures.
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Write records.
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Supervise junior staff.
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Organise workloads.
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Provide emotional support to patients and relatives.
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Tutorise student nurses.
Midwife- look after women during pregnancy, labour to prepare women for delivery and offer postnatal care up to a certain point after birth.
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Monitor the health of pregnant women and their unborn babies.
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Educate patients, their partners and family members on reproductive health, preparation for parenthood and antenatal care.
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Teach patients with pain management techniques.
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Deliver patients’ babies in birthing centers, patients’ homes or hospitals, provide emotional support and encouragement during labor.
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Take and record patients' blood pressure, temperature, pulse and order diagnostic tests as needed.
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Help patients and their partners to cope with miscarriages, stillbirths, neonatal deaths and terminations.
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Teach new mothers how to feed their newborns.
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Assist patients in creating suitable birth plans.
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Provide sound advice to patients regarding diets, exercises and medications suitable for pregnancy.
Prosthetist- measure, design and fabricate medical supportive devices such as artificial limbs, arms, hands, legs, feet, braces and other medical or surgical device fit patient.
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Evaluate and interview patients to determine their needs.
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Take measurements or impressions of the part of a patient’s body that will be fitted with a brace or artificial limb.
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Design and fabricate orthopedic and prosthetic devices.
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Select materials to be used for the orthotic or prosthetic device.
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Instruct patients in how to use and care for their devices.
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Adjust, repair or replace prosthetic and orthotic devices.
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Document care in patients’ records.
Orthotist- make and fit a brace, splint or other artificial external device serving to support the limbs or spine or to prevent or assist relative movement for people who need added support for body parts that have been weakened by injury, disease or disorders of the nerves, muscles or bones.
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Evaluate and interview patients to determine their needs.
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Take measurements or impressions of the part of a patient’s body that will be fitted with a brace or artificial limb.
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Design and fabricate orthopedic and prosthetic devices based on physicians’ prescriptions.
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Select materials to be used for the orthotic or prosthetic device.
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Instruct patients in how to use and care for their devices.
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Adjust, repair or replace prosthetic and orthotic devices.
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Document care in patients’ records.
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Neonatal nurse practitioner- work with the physicians and nursing staff to provide comprehensive critical care to the infants.
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Serve as the primary caregiver to newborn infants.
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Assess, diagnose and carry out procedures in the care of at-risk newborn infants.
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Design treatment plans for infants with complex health issues.
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Prescribe medication on your own authority and/or with the agreement of the physician.
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Educate and support parents and/or guardians in the care of their newborn infants.
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Order and perform medical tests and procedures.
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Occupational therapist- help people of all age overcome the effects of disability caused by illness, ageing or accident so that they can carry out everyday tasks or occupations and patient's needs physical, psychological, social and environmental.
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Review patients’ medical history, observe and motivate them doing tasks.
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Evaluate a patient’s condition and needs.
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Develop a treatment plan for patients.
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Identify specific goals and the types of activities that will be used to help the patient.
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Help people with various disabilities.
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Perform different tasks such as teaching a stroke victim how to get dressed.
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Demonstrate exercises and help to relieve pain in people with chronic conditions
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Evaluate a patient’s home or workplace for more accessibility..
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Educate a patient’s family and employer to accommodate care for the concern.
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Recommend special equipment such as wheelchairs, eating aids and instruct patients on how to use that equipment.
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Assess and record patients’ activities and progress for patient evaluations, for billing and for reporting to physicians and other healthcare providers.
Ophthalmologist- perform anything from routine eye exams to advanced surgical procedures.
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Provide routine care and prescribe glasses and contact lenses.
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Perform corrective surgeries, corneas and remove cataracts.
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Perform advanced surgical procedures.
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Diagnose and treat eye diseases and injuries.
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Manage emergency, outpatient or other eye clinics.
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Treat medical disorders that affect the vision.
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Use therapeutic procedures and performing biopsies.
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Optometrist- diagnose and treat ocular disease, prescribe, fit and adjust eyeglasses, contact lenses and other vision aids to recommend appropriate patient follow up, care options, answer questions and provide advice to patients regarding vision and optical issues.
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Conduct eye exams and general diagnostic interpretation.
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Diagnose and treat ocular disease.
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Prescribe, fit and adjust eyeglasses, contact lenses and other vision aids.
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Recommend appropriate patient follow-up and care options.
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Answer questions and provide advice regarding vision and optical issues.
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Deliver outstanding customer service through all patient interactions.
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Direct staff and assist in the development of the overall practice.
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Orthopedist- see new patients and assess symptoms, monitor existing patients and provide follow up care to surgical patients, help with casting and wound dressing for injured as well as motion therapy for those recuperating from injuries.
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Take patients' histories to determine the extent of a fraction or injury and determine the best mode of treatment.
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Perform blood tests to check for degenerative bone conditions.
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Strengthen an area of the body through exercises, ultrasounds and strength training.
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Surgically repair bones, nerves, ligaments, tendons and joints to promote healing.
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Treat acute and chronic injuries or pain.
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Prescribe medications to aid patients in their recovery.
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Monitor patients' healing processes and make necessary adjustments to their treatment plans.
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Arrange rehabilitation plans after surgeries.
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Supervise and assign duties to nurses or other medical staff and refer patients to other specialists.
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Enhance abilities and remain up to date.
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Psychotherapist- explore and express their thought processes, feelings and behavior through sessions with clients can cover a range of issues, including emotional issues such as anger or grief.
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Work with patientwith depression, phobias, stress, anxiety, emotional and relationship problems, physical or psychosomatic disorders and behavioral problems.
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Perform therapy sessions in a controlled environment.
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Use verbal interaction to explore behavior, attitudes and emotions.
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Help clients to understand and address their inner conflicts.
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Carry out different forms of psychotherapy.
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Social work carer- focuse on clients who suffer from mental illness and work as part of a team of psychologists, therapists and counselors to help clients find employment, housing, jobs with day to day living and other services.
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Identify those in need.
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Help people of all life stages cope with and solve everyday problems.
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Advocate for and develop plans to improve clients' well-being.
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Research and refer clients to community resources.
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Work with individuals, families or groups.
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Respond to clients in crisis situations.
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Conduct interviews with individuals and families to assess and review their situation.
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Undertake and write up assessments which meet specified standards and timescales.
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Offer information and support.
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Organise and manage packages of support .
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Recommend and sometimes make decisions about the best course of action for a particular person or family.
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Liaise with and make referrals to other agencies.
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Participate in multidisciplinary teams and meetings for child protection or mental health.
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Maintain accurate records and prepare reports for legal action.
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Give evidence in court.
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Participate in training, supervision and team meetings.
Ward attendant- perform duties such as feed, bathe, dress, groom or move patients or change linens. May transfer or transport patients. Include nursing care attendants, nursing aides and nursing attendants.
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Provide basic patient care under direction of nursing staff.
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Perform such as feed, bathe, dress, groom or move patients or change linens.
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May transfer or transport patients.
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Nutritionist- provide information on food and healthy eating for individuals, groups or in forming policy to shape nutritional advice and can work in a range of areas
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Meet with clients and identify their dietary needs.
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Develop and help implement personalized nutrition plans for clients.
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Advise on how to stay healthy and provide support with their progress.
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Oversee the consultation calendar to ensure efficiency.
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Simplify important information and explain the benefits of staying on a healthy diet.
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Help establish short and long-term goals.
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Ensure that you stay update on the latest nutritional diets and trends.
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Teach the public and other health specialists about nutrition through articles and group seminars.
Pulmonary function technologist- set up and run respiratory tests on patients to check for lung diseases or disorders.
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Perform pulmonary-function, lung-capacity, diffusion capacity and blood-and oxygen tests to gather data for pulmonary disorders.
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Confers with patient in treatment room to explain test procedures.
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Explain specified methods of breathing to patient and conducts pulmonary-function tests.
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Measure expired air using various analyzers.
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Observe and record readings on metering devices of analysis equipment, convey findings of tests and analyses to physician for interpretation.
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May perform blood analysis tests or may measure sweat chloride test using computerized analyzer.
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May assist physician in special procedures.