podiatry assistant
ISCO: 2269. Skills: 57. Essential: 29.
Essential skills
- administrative tasks in a medical environment
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- chiropody
- clinical coding
- collect healthcare user data under supervision
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- dermatology
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- foot problems
- health records management
- maintain medical devices
- orthopaedic conditions
- orthopaedic treatment alternatives
- orthopaedics
- perform clinical coding procedures
- podiatric diseases
- podiatric surgery
- promote foot health
- provide footwear advice to patients
- provide medication information
- recommend orthotic devices
- record treated patient's information
- respond to changing situations in health care
- shape nails
- treat patients' nails
- types of orthopedic supplies
Supporting skills
- administer appointments
- analyse X-ray imagery
- apply foot casts
- apply wound dressings
- carry out wound care
- conduct podiatry consultation
- contribute to quality physiotherapy services
- discuss the medical history of the healthcare user
- health care system
- human anatomy
- kinetics
- medical terminology
- microbiology-bacteriology
- monitor basic patients signs
- monitor stock level
- obtain healthcare user's medical status information
- pharmacology
- place orders for orthopedic products
- process medical insurance claims
- provide health education
- recommend orthopedic goods to customers depending on their condition
- send samples to laboratory
- sterilization techniques
- surgical asepsis
- treat nails
- use foreign languages in patient care
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams