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32109 – 治疗和评估方面的其他技术职业
治疗和评估方面的其他技术人员执行各种技术治疗和评估功能。有些人可能会协助专业人士,例如听力学家、语言病理学家、眼科医生、物理治疗师和职业治疗师。他们受雇于医院、诊所、延伸护理机构、康复中心、社区卫生中心、教育机构、助听器零售店,受雇于他们所协助的专业人士的私人诊所,或者他们可能是个体经营者。
标题索引
- 助听器技术员
- 听力技师
- 听力技师
- 测听师
- 听力计
- 认证眼科医学技师 (COMT)
- 认证眼科技师(COT)
- 通讯助手-医疗
- 通讯助理 - 医疗
- 沟通障碍助理
- 沟通障碍导师
- 交际障碍助理
- 交际障碍导师
- 助听器助理
- 助听器顾问
- 助听器经销商
- 助听器从业者
- 助听器专家
- 助听器技术员
- 听力评估技术员
- 听力障碍技师
- 助听器分配器
- 助听器从业者
- 助听器助听器助理
- 助听器专家
- 运动治疗师
- 持牌助听器专家
- 手工艺术治疗师
- 职业治疗助理
- 职业治疗技术员
- 眼科医疗技术员
- 眼科医疗技师
- 眼科技师
- 眼科技术员(零售除外)
- 眼科技师
- 假肢康复技师
- 物理康复治疗师
- 物理治疗师助理 (PTA)
- 物理治疗助手
- 理疗技师
- 物理治疗师助理 (PTA)
- 物理治疗助手
- 理疗助理
- 理疗技师
- 康乐治疗助理
- 康复助理
- 语音助手
- 言语矫正师 - 医学
- 语音助手
- 演讲技师
- 言语治疗师助理
- 言语治疗助理
- 言语治疗助手
- 言语治疗助理
- 言语病理学助理
- 治疗师助理
- 治疗助理
主要职责
该小组履行以下部分或全部职责:
助听器从业者
- 使用诊断评估和电声测试检查成年客户以评估听力损失
- 推荐和分发或销售适当类型的助听器
- 取耳模印模用于制造助听器
- 安装、调整和对助听器进行小改动
- 教育客户正确使用、保养和维护助听器
- 与听力学家或其他医疗保健专业人员就患者的状况进行沟通
- 进行后续检查和调整。
沟通障碍助理和语言病理学助理
- 在评估患者期间协助语言病理学家和听力学家
- 在语言病理学家或听力学家的监督下,执行治疗计划、记录结果并开发供患者使用的材料
- 记录患者康复进展
- 检查和维护治疗设备和材料。
眼科医疗技师和技术人员
- 记录患者的一般医疗和眼科病史
- 进行专门的测试,例如折射仪、超声检查、荧光血管造影或眼球运动测试,以帮助眼科医生评估患者的视力
- 指导患者进行诊断测试并记录、解释和排除故障结果
- 协助眼科医生进行眼科手术和手术
- 准备用于培养和染色的标本
- 按照眼科医生的指示使用局部眼科或口服药物
- 维护眼科仪器或设备
- 可以指导和监督其他眼科工作人员并履行各种行政职责
- 可以参加研究活动。
物理康复治疗师
- 根据物理治疗师或医生的转介,从客户档案中收集和分析信息
- 与物理治疗师或医师合作制定、实施和监测客户的治疗计划
- 使用各种治疗方式,例如手动技术(例如按摩)、锻炼、电疗、水疗和热疗(冰或热)来实现治疗目标
- 就姿势、生活方式和锻炼向客户提供建议,以帮助他们改善身体状况。
物理治疗助理和职业治疗助理
- 在物理治疗师和/或职业治疗师的指导下,进行热疗、牵引、水疗和电疗技术等治疗方案,使各种受伤或残疾的患者康复,最大限度地提高他们独立处理日常活动的能力。
就业要求
- 助听器从业者需要完成两年或三年的助听器专家课程大学文凭,以及一段时间的监督培训。
- 除爱德华王子岛、新不伦瑞克省和安大略省外,所有省份的助听器从业者都需要获得监管机构的许可。安大略省要求加入助听器从业者协会 (AHIP)。助听器从业者可以开具处方和配发助听器,安大略省除外,在安大略省配发取决于医生或听力学家的处方。
- 交流障碍助理和语言病理学助理需要完成三到四年的大学课程。
- 眼科医疗技术人员需要完成为期一年的医院眼科技术人员培训计划或至少一年的在职培训,在眼科医生的监督下担任认证眼科助理。
- 眼科医疗技术人员需要完成为期两年的眼科医疗技术医院培训计划,或 4 年的眼科医疗技术学士学位课程,或至少两年作为认证眼科技术员的在职培训在眼科医生的监督下。
- 雇主可能需要眼科专职医疗人员联合委员会的认证。
- 只有在魁北克才能找到的物理康复治疗师需要完成为期三年的物理治疗或康复技术大学课程和一段时间的实习。
- 物理康复治疗师需要获得魁北克物理治疗专业协会 (OPPQ) 颁发的执业许可证。
- 物理治疗助理需要完成两年的物理治疗助理 (PTA) 大学课程,或两年的康复治疗助理课程和监督实践培训。
- 职业治疗助理需要完成为期两年的职业治疗助理 (OTA) 大学课程。
附加信息
- 经认证的眼科技师和经认证的眼科医学技师可能拥有其他专业证书,例如注册眼科超声生物计量师 (ROUB) 或经认证的眼科超声诊断师 (CDOS)。
- 在大多数省份,职业治疗助理 (OTA) 和物理治疗助理 (PTA) 通过社区学院的单一 OTA/PTA 计划接受培训。
- 在魁北克,助听器从业者为成人和儿童提供服务。
- 眼科医疗技术人员可以通过培训、经验和认证晋升到眼科医疗技术人员的职位。
排除
- 医学实验室助理及相关技术职业(33101)
- 支持卫生服务的其他辅助职业 ( 33109)
- 执业护士 ( 32101)
- 呼吸治疗师、临床灌注师和心肺技师 ( 32103)
- 配镜师 ( 32100)
- 辅助医疗职业 ( 32102 )
- 自然疗法实践者 ( 3220)
- 医疗技师和技术人员(3212)
- 物理治疗师 ( 31202)
English
32109 – Other technical occupations in therapy and assessment
Other technical workers in therapy and assessment perform various technical therapy and assessment functions. Some may assist professionals such as audiologists, speech-language pathologists, ophthalmologists, physiotherapists and occupational therapists. They are employed in hospitals, clinics, extended care facilities, rehabilitation centres, community health centres, educational institutions, hearing aid retail stores, in the private practices of the professionals they assist, or they may be self-employed.
Index of titles
- Assistive listening device technician
- Audiological technician
- Audiology technician
- Audiometrician
- Audiometrist
- Certified ophthalmic medical technologist (COMT)
- Certified ophthalmic technician (COT)
- Communication aide - medical
- Communication assistant - medical
- Communication disorders assistant
- Communication disorders instructor
- Communicative disorders assistant
- Communicative disorders instructor
- Hearing aid assistant
- Hearing aid consultant
- Hearing aid dealer
- Hearing aid practitioner
- Hearing aid specialist
- Hearing aid technician
- Hearing assessment technician
- Hearing disorder technician
- Hearing instrument dispenser
- Hearing instrument practitioner
- Hearing instrument practitioner assistant
- Hearing instrument specialist
- Kinesitherapist
- Licensed hearing instrument specialist
- Manual arts therapist
- Occupational therapy assistant
- Occupational therapy technician
- Ophthalmic medical technician
- Ophthalmic medical technologist
- Ophthalmic technician
- Ophthalmic technician (except retail)
- Ophthalmic technologist
- Physical rehabilitation technician
- Physical rehabilitation therapist
- Physical therapist assistant (PTA)
- Physical therapy aide
- Physical therapy technician
- Physiotherapist assistant (PTA)
- Physiotherapy aide
- Physiotherapy assistant
- Physiotherapy technician
- Recreation therapy assistant
- Rehabilitation assistant
- Speech aide
- Speech correctionist - medical
- Speech language assistant
- Speech technician
- Speech therapist aide
- Speech therapist assistant
- Speech therapy aide
- Speech therapy assistant
- Speech-language pathology assistant
- Therapist assistant
- Therapy assistant
Main duties
This group performs some or all of the following duties:
Hearing instrument practitioners
- Examine adult clients to assess hearing loss using diagnostic evaluation and electro acoustic testing
- Recommend and dispense or sell appropriate type of hearing instrument
- Take earmold impressions for use in the manufacture of hearing devices
- Fit, adjust and make minor modifications to hearing instruments
- Educate clients in appropriate use, care and maintenance of hearing instruments
- Communicate with audiologist or other health care professionals regarding patients' condition
- Perform follow-up examinations and readjustments.
Communicative disorders assistants and speech-language pathology assistants
- Assist speech-language pathologists and audiologists during assessment of patients
- Carry out treatment programs, document results and develop materials for use with patients, under the supervision of speech-language pathologists or audiologists
- Document patient rehabilitation progress
- Check and maintain therapeutic equipment and materials.
Ophthalmic medical technologists and technicians
- Take patients' general medical and ophthalmic history
- Conduct specialized testing such as refractometry, ultrasonography, fluorescein angiography or ocular motility testing to aid ophthalmologists in assessing patients' vision
- Instruct patient on diagnostic test and record, interpret and troubleshoot results
- Assist ophthalmologists in performing ophthalmic procedures, and surgeries
- Prepare specimens for culture and staining
- Administer topical ophthalmic or oral medications as directed by ophthalmologists
- Maintain ophthalmic instruments or equipment
- May instruct and supervise other ophthalmic staff and perform various administrative duties
- May participate in research activities.
Physical rehabilitation therapists
- Collect and analyse information from clients' file upon referral from the physiotherapist or physician
- Develop, implement and monitor treatment plans of clients in collaboration with the physiotherapist or physician
- Use a variety of therapeutic modalities such as manual techniques (e.g. massage), exercises, electrotherapy, hydrotherapy and thermotherapy (ice or heat) to achieve treatment objectives
- Advise clients on postures, lifestyle and exercises to help them improve their physical condition.
Physiotherapy assistants and occupational therapy assistants
- Under the direction of physiotherapists and/or occupational therapists, carry out treatment programs such as thermotherapy, traction, hydrotherapy and electrotherapeutic techniques to rehabilitate patients with various injuries or disabilities to maximize their ability to independently manage daily activities.
Employment requirements
- Hearing instrument practitioners require completion of a two or three-year college diploma in a hearing instrument specialist program, and a period of supervised training.
- Licensure with a regulatory body is required for hearing instrument practitioners in all provinces except in Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Ontario. Ontario requires membership with the Association of Hearing Instrument Practitioners (AHIP). Hearing instrument practitioners can prescribe and dispense hearing instruments except in Ontario where dispensing is dependent on a prescription from a physician or audiologist.
- Communicative disorders assistants and speech-language pathology assistants require completion of a three- to four-year college program.
- Ophthalmic medical technicians require completion of a one-year hospital based ophthalmic technician training program or a minimum of one year on-the-job training working as a Certified Ophthalmic Assistant under the supervision of an ophthalmologist.
- Ophthalmic medical technologists require completion of a two-year hospital-based training program in ophthalmic medical technology, or a 4 year bachelor’s degree program in Ophthalmic Medical Technology or a minimum of two years of on-the-job training working as a Certified Ophthalmic Technician under the supervision of an ophthalmologist.
- Certification by the Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology may be required by employers.
- Physical rehabilitation therapists, who are only found in Quebec, require completion of a three-year physiotherapy or rehabilitation techniques college program and a period of internship.
- A permit to practice issued by the Ordre professionnel de la physiothérapie du Québec (OPPQ) is required for physical rehabilitation therapists.
- Physiotherapy assistants require completion of a two-year physical therapy assistant (PTA) college program, or a two-year rehabilitation therapy assistant program and supervised practical training.
- Occupational therapy assistants require completion of a two-year occupational therapy assistant (OTA) college program.
Additional information
- Certified Ophthalmic Technician and Certified Ophthalmic Medical Technologist may have additional specialty certification such as Registered Ophthalmic Ultrasound Biometrist (ROUB) or Certified Diagnostic Ophthalmic Sonographer (CDOS).
- In most provinces occupational therapy assistants (OTA) and physiotherapy assistants (PTA) receive training through a single OTA/PTA program in community colleges.
- In Quebec, hearing instruments practitioners provide services to adults and children.
- Ophthalmic medical technicians may progress to ophthalmic medical technologists’ positions with training, experience and certification.
Exclusions
- Medical laboratory assistants and related technical occupations (33101)
- Other assisting occupations in support of health services (33109)
- Licensed practical nurses (32101)
- Respiratory therapists, clinical perfusionists and cardiopulmonary technologists (32103)
- Opticians (32100)
- Paramedical occupations (32102)
- Practitioners of natural healing (3220)
- Medical technologists and technicians (3212)
- Physiotherapists (31202)