Train patients, family members, or caregivers in techniques for managing disabilities or illnesses
Little of this can be handed to software today.
The reporting and paperwork around management automate well. Directing, developing and evaluating people does not, and people do not accept it when it is attempted on them.
| How automatable | Barely automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Managing, training and developing people |
| Jobs that do it | 12 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Enterprise platforms |
| O*NET activity | Training and Teaching Others (4.A.4.b.3) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 12 occupations that perform it.
- Educate and counsel patients on contact lens care, visual hygiene, lighting arrangements, and safety factors.
- Teach clients to travel independently, using a variety of actual or simulated travel situations or exercises.
- Instruct patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home.
- Instruct patient in activities and techniques, such as sports, dance, music, art, or relaxation techniques, designed to meet their specific physical or psychological needs.
- Educate patients and their families about their conditions and teach appropriate disease management techniques, such as breathing exercises or the use of medications or respiratory equipment.
- Educate patients and family members about various topics, such as communication techniques or strategies to cope with or to avoid personal misunderstandings.
- Teach group exercise for low-, medium-, or high-risk clients to improve participant strength, flexibility, endurance, or circulatory functioning.
- Educate patients about self-management of acute or chronic illnesses, tailoring instructions to patients' individual circumstances.
- Counsel and instruct patients and their families in techniques to improve hearing and communication related to hearing loss.
- Educate patients on topics, such as meditation, ergonomics, stretching, exercise, nutrition, the healing process, breathing, or relaxation techniques.
- Provide medical treatment or personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks.
- Instruct patients in proper body mechanics and in ways to improve functional mobility, such as aquatic exercise.
- Train clients to use tactile, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and proprioceptive information.
- Perform bronchopulmonary drainage and assist or instruct patients in performance of breathing exercises.
- Instruct clients in techniques for more effective communication, such as sign language, lip reading, or voice improvement.
- Instruct patients, parents, teachers, or employers in communication strategies to maximize effective receptive communication.
- Teach independent living skills or techniques, such as adaptive eating, medication management, diabetes management, and personal management.
- Teach clients to control or strengthen tongue, jaw, face muscles, or breathing mechanisms.
What we would actually use
Nothing in our landscape addresses this work. That is the honest answer rather than a padded list: this activity needs a person present, or a machine rather than a software agent.
Buy nothing. The reporting and paperwork around management run on whatever you already use for documents, and the part that is actually managing people does not automate at any price.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Enterprise platforms
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
How people actually do it
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
12 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Acupuncturists
- Audiologists
- Exercise Physiologists
- Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses
- Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists
- Nurse Practitioners
- Optometrists
- Physical Therapist Assistants
- Physical Therapists
- Recreational Therapists
- Respiratory Therapists
- Speech-Language Pathologists
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Train others on health or medical topics”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.