Doctors' surgery assistant
Code 3256.1
Doctors' surgery assistants support doctors of medicine in medical measures, in performing simple support activities during medical procedures, standardised diagnostic programmes and standardised point-of-care tests, ensuring surgery hygiene, cleaning, disinfecting, sterilising and maintaining medical devices and performing the organisational and administrative tasks required for operating a doctor`s surgery under supervision, following the orders of the doctor of medicine.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- Alfabetización en tecnologías de salud
- anaesthetics
- surgical asepsis
- professional documentation in health care
- health records management
- medical informatics
- health care legislation
- health care system
- administrative tasks in a medical environment
- medical terminology
- techniques of blood-sampling
Skills and competences
- Atender a pacientes con enfermedades crónicas
- Considerar las preferencias y valores del paciente en la toma de decisiones
- apply context specific clinical competences
- accept own accountability
- communicate in healthcare
- answer patients' questions
- contribute to continuity of health care
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- empathise with the healthcare user
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- manage healthcare users' data
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- maintain treatment records
- promote inclusion
- provide test results to medical staff
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- interact with healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment
- process medical insurance claims
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
Transversal competences
- deal with emergency care situations
- respond to changing situations in health care
- apply organisational techniques
- multi-professional cooperation in health care
- educate on the prevention of illness
- garantizar la administración adecuada de las citas
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- provide health education
- provide pre-treatment information
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
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Sources
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