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K - knowledge
L - language skills and knowledge
S - skills
S1 - communication, collaboration and creativity
S1.0 - communication, collaboration and creativity
S1.1 - negotiating
S1.2 - liaising and networking
S1.3 - teaching and training
S1.4 - presenting information
S1.5 - advising and consulting
S1.5.0 - advising and consulting
S1.5.1 - advising on legal, regulatory or procedural matters
S1.5.2 - providing financial advice
S1.5.3 - advising on products and services
S1.5.4 - providing medical advice
- advise customers on hearing aids
- advise healthcare users on occupational health
- advise on animal welfare
- advise on childbirth
- advise on contact lense maintenance
- advise on environmental alterations
- advise on family planning
- advise on healthy lifestyles
- advise on livestock disease control
- advise on medical device features
- advise on medical products
- advise on medical records
- advise on mental health
- advise on pest infestation prevention
- advise on poisoning incidents
- advise on pregnancies at risk
- advise on pregnancy
- advise on prenatal genetic diseases
- advise on rehabilitation exercises
- advise patients on infectious diseases when travelling
- advise patients on vision improvement conditions
- advise policy makers in healthcare
- advise sportspersons on diet
- apply context specific clinical competences
- assess referred healthcare users
- assess the course of breast-feeding period
- brief hospital staff
- carry out preventative internal medicine interventions
- conduct a homeopathic consultation
- convey medical routine information
- counsel healthcare users on medicines
- counsel on communication disorders
- counsel on end-of-life care
- counsel on nutrition and its impact on oral health
- counsel patient on family concerns
- counsel patients on fertility treatments
- counsel patients on improving hearing
- counsel patients on improving speech
- discuss the end point of therapeutic intervention
- discuss weight loss plan
- dispense medicines
- display medical problems
- enable patients to explore artworks
- encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
- encourage healthy behaviours
- explain the molecular basis of a disease to patients
- explain types of coagulation disorders
- follow-up on healthcare users' treatment
- formulate dietetic intervention
- give care instructions
- help healthcare users develop social perceptiveness
- inform clients of healthy lifestyle benefits
- inform on the risks of substance and alcohol abuse
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- instruct on the use of hearing aids
- instruct on the use of special equipment for daily activities
- interact with healthcare users
- intervene to reduce sub-optimal nutritional status of individuals
- make recommendation on nutrition to public policy makers
- manage fitness goals
- manage indoor tanning sessions
- monitor patients' medication
- offer advice on diet-related concerns
- promote foot health
- promote healthy lifestyle
- provide advice to emergency callers
- provide clinical advice to team members
- provide clinical psychological assessment
- provide clinical psychological expert opinions
- provide comprehensive care for patients with surgical conditions
- provide counselling on abortion
- provide fitness customer care
- provide fitness customer service
- provide fitness information
- provide footwear advice to patients
- provide genetic counselling
- provide health counselling
- provide health psychological advice
- provide health psychological analysis
- provide health psychological treatment advice
- provide information on chiropractic treatment outcomes
- provide medication information
- provide nursing advice on healthcare
- provide pharmaceutical advice
- provide pre-treatment information
- provide specialist pharmaceutical advice
- recommend hearing aids
- recommend orthotic devices
- support blood transfusion services
- support discharge from physiotherapy
- support informed consent
- support patients to understand their conditions
S1.5.5 - advising on environmental issues
S1.5.6 - advising on design or use of technologies
S1.5.7 - advising on business or operational matters
S1.5.8 - advising on educational or vocational matters
S1.5.9 - advising on workplace health and safety issues
S1.6 - promoting, selling and purchasing
S1.7 - obtaining information verbally
S1.8 - working with others
S1.9 - solving problems
S1.11 - designing systems and products
S1.12 - creating artistic, visual or instructive materials
S1.13 - writing and composing
S1.14 - performing and entertaining
S1.15 - using more than one language
S2 - information skills
S3 - assisting and caring
S4 - management skills
S5 - working with computers
S6 - handling and moving
S7 - constructing
S8 - working with machinery and specialised equipment
T - transversal skills and competences

This concept is obsolete

advise on healthcare users' informed consent

skills

assisting and caring

providing information and support to the public and clients

providing information and support to the public and clients

social and communication skills and competences

communicating

report facts

advise on healthcare users' informed consent

transversal skills and competences

self-management skills and competences

working efficiently

attend to detail

provide information

advise on healthcare users' informed consent

advise on healthcare users' informed consent

Concept overview

Description

Ensure patients/clients are fully informed about the risks and benefits of proposed treatments so they can give informed consent, engaging patients/clients in the process of their care and treatment.

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advise on healthcare user's informed consent

advise on health care users' informed consent

ensure information on treatment risks for informed consent

give advice on informed consent to healthcare users

Skill type

skill

Skill reusability level

sector specific skills and competences

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DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission developed ESCO in collaboration with stakeholders and with the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop).

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Current version: ESCO v1.2 (Last update 15/05/2024)