Skills General Practitioner (GP) near Grand Falls-Windsor (NL)

Expertise

People working in this occupation usually apply the following skill set.

• Provide counselling and support to patients and their families on a wide range of health and lifestyle issues
• Provide acute care management
• Provide emergency care
• Supervise home care services
• Co-ordinate or manage primary patient care
• Perform patient advocacy role
• Communicate health promotion, disease, illnes and accident prevention to patients
• Report births, deaths, contagious and other diseases to government authorities
• Advise patients on health care
• Deliver babies and provide pre-natal and post-natal care
• Inoculate and vaccinate patients to prevent and treat diseases
• Perform and assist in routine surgery
• Prescribe and administer medications and treatments
• Consult with other medical practitioners to evaluate patients' physical and mental health
• Examine patients and take their histories, order laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures

Skills and knowledge

The following skills and knowledge are usually required in this occupation.

Service and Care

Taking care of the needs of people and animals.

• Treating People/Animals
  • Providing emergency care, therapy or other prescribed treatment for people and animals.
• Counselling and Nurturing
  • Responding to clients' needs by interpreting their emotional and motivational states, and determining and providing appropriate support or interventions.

Management

Taking charge of the direction and resources of an organization.

• Supervising
  • Directing and monitoring the performance of others.

Analysis

Examining and evaluating information.

• Examining and Diagnosing
  • Assessing conditions through examination or diagnostic testing to determine appropriate treatments.
• Projecting Outcomes
  • Estimating the results of an action or a series of actions.
• Analyzing Information
  • Examining data or facts to determine appropriate actions or recommendations.

Communication

Using communication skills to share information, advise and influence.

• Liaising and Networking
  • Developing alliances, contacts or partnerships, and exchanging information with others.
• Interviewing
  • Conducting enquiries in a formal way to collect information or to determine opinions.
• Advising and Consulting
  • Providing guidance and advice to enable decision-making about tasks, situations, and processes.
• Teaching and Training
  • Facilitating the acquisition of new knowledge and skills.

Information Handling

Creating and using systems for the storage and retrieval of knowledge and data.

• Processing Information
  • Inputting, recording, transcribing and updating data using electronic or manual information systems.

Business, Finance and Management

Knowledge related to organization and control of business activities.

• Business Administration
  • Knowledge of the principles and practices of managing businesses.
• Client Service
  • Knowledge of principles and practices of providing service to clients to maintain and build organizational success.

Health Services

Knowledge related to the provision of medical science and technology for the physical and mental well-being of others.

• Therapy and Counselling
  • Knowledge of principles and practices for diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and counselling.
• Medicine
  • Knowledge of body systems and processes and techniques to diagnose and treat human and animal injuries, diseases, conditions and deformities. This includes understanding treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health care measures.

Law and Public Safety

Knowledge related to the provision and enforcement of laws and regulations that safeguard the effective functioning of a democratic society.

• Public Safety and Security
  • Knowledge of public safety and security operations and systems, of policy, regulations and procedures for the protection of people, data and property.

Mathematics and Science

Knowledge related to specialized areas of research such as measurement, living organisms, physical substances, and properties and relationships of quantity, space, and matter.

• Biology
  • Knowledge of living organisms including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution and classification and their interdependencies and interactions with each other and the environment.
• Chemistry
  • Knowledge of chemical composition, structure and properties of substances; of chemical processes, interactions and transformations; and of uses of chemicals, their production techniques and disposal methods.