Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

anaesthetic techniciantorespiratory therapy technician

A anaesthetic technician already meets 40% of what the respiratory therapy technician role asks for. The move turns on 10 required skills not yet in the profile.

From anaesthetic technician
40%
Overlap1
To respiratory therapy technician
12 Skills carried over
10 Required, not held
61.6 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

40%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

61.6/ 100

1 Share of the respiratory therapy technician role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the anaesthetic technician profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.

Why

Why this move works

A respiratory therapy technician role treats 7 of its required skills as things a anaesthetic technician already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • communicate in healthcare
  • comply with legislation related to health care
  • comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
  • ensure safety of healthcare users
  • human anatomy
  • medical terminology

What stands in the way is 10 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 12 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A respiratory therapy technician role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a anaesthetic technician background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held emergency surgery health and welfare
  • already held surgery health and welfare
  • already held medical informatics health and welfare
  • already held medical terminology health and welfare
  • already held manage healthcare users' data information skills
  • already held comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice assisting and caring

All 12 carried skills, including the 7 the respiratory therapy technician role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 19 missing skills fall into 9 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 health and welfare 3 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held clinical perfusion required
  • required, not held respiratory medicine required
  • required, not held respiratory therapy required
  • optional, not held rehabilitation of all organ systems optional
  • optional, not held clinical imaging techniques optional
02 assisting and caring 2 required
  • required, not held carry out invasive cardiovascular procedures required
  • required, not held contribute to continuity of health care required
03 working with machinery and specialised equipment 2 required
  • required, not held operate breathing equipment required
  • required, not held operate heart-lung machines required
04 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held apply context specific clinical competences required
  • optional, not held promote health and safety optional
  • optional, not held provide pre-treatment information optional
  • optional, not held develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship optional
05 business, administration and law 1 required
  • required, not held health care legislation required
06 services 1 required
  • required, not held hygiene in a health care setting required

3 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a respiratory therapy technician role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 12 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held communicate in healthcare skill
  • already held comply with legislation related to health care skill
  • already held comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice skill
  • already held ensure safety of healthcare users skill
  • already held human anatomy knowledge
  • already held medical terminology knowledge
  • already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
  • already held emergency surgery knowledge
  • already held first aid knowledge
  • already held manage healthcare users' data skill
  • already held medical informatics knowledge
  • already held surgery knowledge
The 3 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 information skills 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held conduct polysomnography optional
  • optional, not held interpret medical images optional
08 management skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held respond to changing situations in health care optional
09 working with computers 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held use e-health and mobile health technologies optional
9 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held conduct polysomnography optional
  • optional, not held interpret medical images optional
  • optional, not held promote health and safety optional
  • optional, not held provide pre-treatment information optional
  • optional, not held rehabilitation of all organ systems optional
  • optional, not held use e-health and mobile health technologies optional
  • optional, not held clinical imaging techniques optional
  • optional, not held develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship optional
  • optional, not held respond to changing situations in health care optional
46 held skills the respiratory therapy technician role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role administer anaesthetics to patients skill
  • not needed by the target role anaesthetics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role arrange surgery operating site skill
  • not needed by the target role assess patients after surgery skill
  • not needed by the target role assist in epilepsy surgery skill
  • not needed by the target role assist with hemostasis skill
  • not needed by the target role biophysics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role conduct preoperative investigations skill
  • not needed by the target role deal with emergency care situations skill
  • not needed by the target role demonstrate technical skills during neurological surgery skill
  • not needed by the target role dispose medical waste skill
  • not needed by the target role emergency medicine knowledge
  • not needed by the target role empathise with the healthcare user skill
  • not needed by the target role endoscopy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ensure the positioning of the patient for surgery skill
  • not needed by the target role human physiology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role infection control knowledge
  • not needed by the target role instruct on allergic reactions to anaesthetics skill
  • not needed by the target role intensive care medicine knowledge
  • not needed by the target role maintain anaesthetic machinery skill
  • not needed by the target role manage acute pain skill
  • not needed by the target role manage adverse reactions to anaesthesia skill
  • not needed by the target role manage infection control in the facility skill
  • not needed by the target role manage trauma through surgical means skill
  • not needed by the target role monitor basic patients signs skill
  • not needed by the target role monitor patients during surgery skill
  • not needed by the target role monitor stock level skill
  • not needed by the target role order supplies for anaesthesia services skill
  • not needed by the target role perform bronchoscopy skill
  • not needed by the target role perform eye surgery skill
  • not needed by the target role perform reconstructive microsurgery skill
  • not needed by the target role perform vascular surgery therapeutic procedures skill
  • not needed by the target role perform venepuncture procedures skill
  • not needed by the target role pharmacology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role positions for surgical procedures knowledge
  • not needed by the target role professional documentation in health care knowledge
  • not needed by the target role radiation protection knowledge
  • not needed by the target role resuscitation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role spine surgery knowledge
  • not needed by the target role sterilization techniques knowledge

6 further entries not listed here

7 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held clinical perfusion required
  • required, not held respiratory medicine required
  • required, not held respiratory therapy required
  • required, not held health care legislation required
  • required, not held hygiene in a health care setting required
  • optional, not held rehabilitation of all organ systems optional
  • optional, not held clinical imaging techniques optional
Index

Other moves recorded from anaesthetic technician

Full index of moves from anaesthetic technician

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.