| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| LPN and LVN |
- Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
- Management of Material Resources: Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
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- Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
- Provide medical treatment and personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, and instructing family members in simple nursing tasks.
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration.
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| Psychiatric Technician |
- Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
- Technology Design: Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
- Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
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- Provide nursing, psychiatric and personal care to mentally ill, emotionally disturbed or mentally retarded patients.
- Contact patients' relatives to arrange family conferences.
- Encourage patients to develop work skills and to participate in social, recreational, and other therapeutic activities that enhance interpersonal skills and develop social relationships.
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| Massage Therapist |
- Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
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- Prepare and blend oils and apply the blends to clients' skin.
- Refer clients to other types of therapists when necessary.
- Maintain treatment records.
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