Traditional chinese medicine therapist

Code 2230.2.3

Traditional Chinese medicine therapists use alternative medicine approaches to cure illnesses in all its forms. They also use various therapies such as the use of herbal medicines, acupuncture, massages and dietary therapies, to increase the general health of the patient and to prevent a disease from occurring.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • human anatomy
  • biomedicine
  • human physiology
  • phytotherapy
  • pathology
  • pathologies treated by acupuncture

Skills and competences

  • advise on healthy lifestyles
  • apply context specific clinical competences
  • counsel healthcare users on medicines
  • empathise with the healthcare user
  • apply massage therapy
  • develop therapeutic relationships
  • identify customer's needs
  • maintain work area cleanliness
  • observe healthcare users
  • listen actively
  • monitor patients' progress related to treatment
  • monitor patient's health condition

Transversal competences

  • refer healthcare users
  • ensure safety of healthcare users
  • promote mental health
  • follow-up on healthcare users' treatment

Languages

  • traditional Chinese medicine

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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences