audiologist
ISCO: 2266. Skills: 71. Essential: 60.
Essential skills
- accept own accountability
- acoustics
- adapt hearing tests
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- adjust cochlear implants
- adjust hearing aids
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- audiology
- audiometry
- balance disorders
- clean patients' ear canals
- communicate in healthcare
- communication related to hearing impairment
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conduct health related research
- contribute to continuity of health care
- counsel patients on improving hearing
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- diagnose hearing impairement
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- evaluate the psychological impact of hearing problems
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care legislation
- health care system
- hearing aids
- hearing loss
- human anatomy
- human ear
- human physiology
- hygiene in a health care setting
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- instruct on the use of hearing aids
- interact with healthcare users
- interpret diagnostic tests in otorhinolaryngology
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment
- neurophysiology
- pathology
- physiology of balance
- physiology of hearing
- produce impressions for ear moulds
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- psychoacoustics
- refer healthcare users
- respond to changing situations in health care
- undertake clinical audit
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use of specialised instruments in otorhinolaryngology
- use special hearing equipment for tests
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams