ISCO Specialization 2230.1.3 Traditional Chinese Medicine Therapist
From Open Risk Manual
Definition
Traditional Chinese Medicine Therapist: Traditional Chinese medicine therapists use alternative medicine approaches to cure illnesses in all its forms. They also use various therapies such as the use of herbal medicines, acupuncture, massages and dietary therapies, to increase the general health of the patient and to prevent a disease from occurring.
Essential Skills
- Advise On Healthy Lifestyles
- Monitor Patients' Progress Related To Treatment
- Counsel Healthcare Users On Medicines
- Apply Context Specific Clinical Competences
- Maintain Work Area Cleanliness
- Human Anatomy
- Refer Healthcare Users
- Phytotherapy
- Identify Customer'S Needs
- Biomedicine
- Listen Actively
- Pathologies Treated By Acupuncture
- Observe Healthcare Users
- Ensure Safety Of Healthcare Users
- Empathise With The Healthcare User
- Promote Mental Health
- Follow-Up On Healthcare Users' Treatment
- Pathology
- Develop Therapeutic Relationships
- Apply Massage Therapy
- Human Physiology
- Monitor Patient'S Health Condition
- Traditional Chinese Medicine
Optional Skills
- Pharmacology
- Provide Health Education
- Composition Of Diets
- Select Acupuncture Points
- Complementary And Alternative Medicine
- Apply Acupuncture
- Sterilization Techniques
- Auriculotherapy
- Relaxation Techniques
- Acupuncture Methods
- General Medicine
- Educate On The Prevention Of Illness
Alternative Names
- Tcm Therapist
- Tcm Practitioner
- Therapist In Tcm
- Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner
- Specialist In Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Tcm Specialist
- Chinese Medicine Therapist
- Therapist In Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Practitioner Of Traditional Chinese Medicine
