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O*NET detailed work activityClean medical equipment or facilities
Stays humanHands-on care
12 jobs14 tasks
Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.
Part of Clean medical equipment or facilities, under the O*NET work activity group Performing General Physical Activities. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 14 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Clean and restock operating room, gathering and placing equipment and supplies and arranging instruments according to instructions, such as a preference card.
- Clean kennels, animal holding areas, surgery suites, examination rooms, or animal loading or unloading facilities to control the spread of disease.
- Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.
- Disassemble and clean anesthesia equipment.
- Clean rooms and make beds.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Set up, clean, and maintain laboratory equipment.
- Clean, check, and maintain sonographic equipment, submitting maintenance requests or performing minor repairs as necessary.
- Clean and sterilize instruments, equipment, or materials.
- Inspect, clean, test, and maintain respiratory therapy equipment to ensure equipment is functioning safely and efficiently, ordering repairs when necessary.
- Clean and help maintain equipment or work areas and sterilize glassware, according to prescribed methods.
- Wash and sterilize equipment, using germicides and sterilizers.
- Set up, maintain, calibrate, clean, and test sterility of medical laboratory equipment.
- Clean or sterilize ophthalmic or surgical instruments.
- Clean or sterilize ophthalmic or surgical instruments.