doctors' surgery assistant
ISCO: 3256. Skills: 66. Essential: 46.
Essential skills
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- administrative tasks in a medical environment
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- anaesthetics
- answer patients' questions
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- assist in epilepsy surgery
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care legislation
- health care system
- health records management
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- maintain treatment records
- manage healthcare users' data
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment
- multi-professional cooperation in health care
- operate patients with thoracic diseases
- perform reconstructive plastic surgery
- process medical insurance claims
- professional documentation in health care
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- provide pre-treatment information
- provide test results to medical staff
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- respond to changing situations in health care
- surgical asepsis
- techniques of blood-sampling
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Supporting skills
- administer appointments
- analyse X-ray imagery
- assist patients with special needs
- assist with hemostasis
- clinical reports
- collect biological samples from patients
- conduct polysomnography
- customer service
- e-procurement
- offer advice on diet-related concerns
- perform procurement processes
- perform venepuncture procedures
- radiological procedures
- record healthcare users' billing information
- spine surgery
- supervise medical office support workers
- take blood samples
- use foreign languages in patient care
- use venepuncture procedure equipment
- wound closure techniques