According to people in this career, the main tasks are...
| Task | Importance |
|---|---|
| Develop individual treatment plans and strategies. | 96% |
| Adhere to local, state, and federal laws, regulations, and statutes. | 95% |
| Insert needles to provide acupuncture treatment. | 95% |
| Identify correct anatomical and proportional point locations based on patients' anatomy and positions, contraindications, and precautions related to treatments, such as intradermal needles, moxibustion, electricity, guasha, or bleeding. | 95% |
| Collect medical histories and general health and lifestyle information from patients. | 94% |
| Treat patients using tools, such as needles, cups, ear balls, seeds, pellets, or nutritional supplements. | 93% |
| Analyze physical findings and medical histories to make diagnoses according to Oriental medicine traditions. | 93% |
| Maintain and follow standard quality, safety, environmental, and infection control policies and procedures. | 91% |
| Educate patients on topics, such as meditation, ergonomics, stretching, exercise, nutrition, the healing process, breathing, or relaxation techniques. | 91% |
| Dispense herbal formulas and inform patients of dosages and frequencies, treatment duration, possible side effects, and drug interactions. | 91% |
| Assess patients' general physical appearance to make diagnoses. | 90% |
| Maintain detailed and complete records of health care plans and prognoses. | 90% |
| Formulate herbal preparations to treat conditions considering herbal properties, such as taste, toxicity, effects of preparation, contraindications, and incompatibilities. | 88% |
| Apply heat or cold therapy to patients using materials, such as heat pads, hydrocollator packs, warm compresses, cold compresses, heat lamps, or vapor coolants. | 87% |
| Consider Western medical procedures in health assessment, health care team communication, and care referrals. | 86% |
| Evaluate treatment outcomes and recommend new or altered treatments as necessary to further promote, restore, or maintain health. | 86% |
| Treat medical conditions, using techniques such as acupressure, shiatsu, or tuina. | 83% |
| Apply moxibustion directly or indirectly to patients using Chinese, non-scarring, stick, or pole moxa. | 73% |
