Skills Activationist - Health Support Services near Kingston (ON)

Find out what skills you typically need to work as an activationist - health support services in Canada. These skills are applicable to all Other assisting occupations in support of health services (NOC 33109).

Tasks

  • Assist health care professionals
  • Position patients for treatments by chiropractor or machine
  • Set up and dismantle equipment
  • Apply and adjust casts, splints and bandages
  • Clean and maintain equipment
  • Compound, package and label pharmaceutical products
  • Lay out surgical instruments
  • Prepare and maintain equipment and supplies
  • Reassemble equipment and assemble packs of sterile supplies and instruments for delivery to hospital departments
  • Record information about donors
  • Record vital signs
  • Assist chiropractor with patient health education
  • Clean and dress wounds
  • Label and process donated blood
  • Maintain prescription records and inventories of medications and pharmaceutical products
  • Operate and maintain sterilization equipment and instrumentation for re-use according to standardized safety practices
  • Prepare solutions for preservation of specimens
  • Process claims such as health insurance or workers compensation
  • Provide post donation care and donor reaction care
  • Remove casts, sutures and pins
  • Remove organs and tissue specimens from bodies in morgue as directed by pathologist
  • Clean and sew up bodies for release to funeral homes
  • Collect statistics
  • Maintain supplies
  • Connect treatment machines to patients, as directed by chiropractor
  • Maintain inventory of equipment
  • Monitor donors throughout procedure under supervision of a registered nurse
  • Assist chiropractor with physical examinations
  • Perform general clerical duties
  • Prepare and maintain cleanliness of collection areas
  • Manage routine office functions including reception, telephone and booking appointments
  • Order supplies and equipment
  • Organize and maintain inventory
  • Schedule and confirm appointments

Skills and Knowledge Checklist

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

Skills

Handling Goods and Materials Help - Handling Goods and Materials
  • Loading and Unloading
  • Sorting

Handling Goods and Materials

Working with goods and materials manually or with machines.

Loading and Unloading
Moving goods or materials, by hand or with the aid of equipment.
Sorting
Handling, sorting, weighing, packaging, separating or arranging materials, according to established patterns or procedures.
Building Help - Building
  • Restoring and Repairing

Building

Working with materials to construct, renovate and maintain structures.

Restoring and Repairing
Replacing worn or broken parts, adjusting and testing for function, appearance, operation or safety.
Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles Help - Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles
  • Operating Stationary Industrial Equipment
  • Operating Mobile Equipment
  • Mechanical Installing, Maintaining and Repairing

Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles

Working with and/or repairing vehicles, machinery or stationary equipment.

Operating Stationary Industrial Equipment
Operating and monitoring various types of mechanically-controlled or computer-controlled industrial machinery, equipment or systems.
Operating Mobile Equipment
Controlling the operation of machinery, equipment or vehicles.
Mechanical Installing, Maintaining and Repairing
Installing equipment or machines and/or using tools and devices to maintain and repair them.
Working with Technological Equipment and Machinery Help - Working with Technological Equipment and Machinery
  • Using Specialized Instrumentation and Equipment

Working with Technological Equipment and Machinery

Working with technical equipment, instruments, machinery and other systems.

Using Specialized Instrumentation and Equipment
Controlling, monitoring, calibrating and adjusting precision instrumentation.
Service and Care Help - Service and Care
  • Cleaning and House/Shop Keeping
  • Serving Others
  • Treating People/Animals

Service and Care

Taking care of the needs of people and animals.

Cleaning and House/Shop Keeping
Providing cleaning and janitorial services.
Serving Others
Assisting the public by answering questions, making recommendations, and providing information or support in response to requests.
Treating People/Animals
Providing emergency care, therapy or other prescribed treatment for people and animals.
Communication Help - Communication
  • Professional Communicating
  • Teaching and Training

Communication

Using communication skills to share information, advise and influence.

Professional Communicating
Preparing and delivering written, oral or visual material for the workplace that presents information.
Teaching and Training
Facilitating the acquisition of new knowledge and skills.

Creative Expression

Using various materials and formats to create work that is intended to be artistically satisfying, entertaining, instructive or functional.

Information Handling Help - Information Handling
  • Processing Information
  • Managing Information

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.
Managing Information
Setting up manual or electronic systems for controlling, selecting, organizing, retrieving, distributing and safeguarding information.
Analysis Help - Analysis
  • Examining and Diagnosing
  • Projecting Outcomes

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.

Management

Taking charge of the direction and resources of an organization.

Knowledge

Manufacturing and Production

Knowledge related to the delivery of a series of operations in large-scale production or processing of goods or crops, according to safety and quality standards.

Communications and Transportation

Knowledge related to the provision and transmission of systems of communication and entertainment and the delivery of consumer goods or services.

Law and Public Safety

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

Social Sciences and Arts

Knowledge related to culture, origins and patterns of human activity, and the development and expression of thought.

Education and Training

Knowledge related to the theory and practice of teaching, and the methods used in the design, delivery and evaluation of the provision of knowledge or information.

Health Services Help - Health Services
  • Therapy and Counselling
  • Medicine

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.
Mathematics and Science Help - Mathematics and Science
  • Biology
  • Chemistry

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.

Engineering and Technology

Knowledge related to the design, building, use or repair of machinery, equipment, systems, and structures.

Business, Finance and Management Help - Business, Finance and Management
  • Client Service
  • Clerical

Business, Finance and Management

Knowledge related to organization and control of business activities.

Client Service
Knowledge of principles and practices of providing service to clients to maintain and build organizational success.
Clerical
Knowledge of office administrative and clerical practices and procedures.
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