How do I know what skills people need?

[Alundra (Alunny)]

So I just realised I have been hiring receptionists who are good at patient care and perhaps I should have prioritised receptionist skill? My thinking was they were triaging and that can be pretty rough so I wanted them to triage correctly and gently....but maybe I did the wrong skill?

The lab techs all have biochemistry and stuff but do all of them need that? What are acute medicine and advanced diagnosis and so on used for? Should my GP be good at diagnosis or general medicine?

There's so much here to unpack and I am willing to put the work in to understand but the game offers very little information or explanation to work with.

[Jamarley]

Well there are certain skills which are pretty important like advanced diagnosis. This opens up the ability to give patients differential diagnosis. That basically just means if doctors are 50/50 if a hand for instance is broken or simply sprained and you don't have an X-ray to check they can figure it out that way. The better their skill in that department the more likely the diagnosis is gonna be successful.
Same goes for diagnosis from what I understand. If they perform physical examinations for instance they have a higher chance of succeeding with the procedure and uncovering new symptoms in the process.
If they are good at their respective departments I am not sure but I think this might have to do with how good they are at figuring out the specific diseases and sickness the patient has.
Other traits like "Can assist in surgery" as well as "Surgeon" etc. should be self explaining, basically they are gonna perform operations then.

In terms of nurses it's a tad more difficult.
I still haven't figured out how clinical nurses influence everything but just always go for the highest you can get I guess?
Receptionist is probably going to unlock more symptoms from the get-go to assess patients better. If they are good receptionists they can find dangerous symptoms easier and assign the patient's priority higher so you have a lower chance of a patient randomly collapsing without knowing what goes on.
Patient care is probably just important for the patient's rating I guess. Having low patient care is most likely gonna significantly influence your patient's evaluation of the hospital.

But overall there's very little information found about this since this game isn't that big. Guess you have to experiment and try?

[Oberkampfkater]

I still haven't figured out how clinical nurses influence everything but just always go for the highest you can get I guess?

I guess that those surgery related skills contribute to the likelihood of post-operation events like sepsis and post-operative bleeding.

Anaesthetics is quite important for doctors in the trauma centers and the ICU, since a higher skill boosts the chance that patients survive various collapses.