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O*NET detailed work activityPrepare patients physically for medical procedures
Stays humanHands-on care
11 jobs13 tasks
Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.
Part of Assist healthcare practitioners during medical procedures, under the O*NET work activity group Assisting and Caring for Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 13 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Show patients to examination rooms and prepare them for the physician.
- Attach electrodes to patients, using adhesives.
- Prepare animals for surgery, performing such tasks as shaving surgical areas.
- Remove patient hair or disinfect incision sites to prepare patient for surgery.
- Attach physiological monitoring leads to patient's finger, chest, waist, or other body parts.
- Remove jewelry, watches, or other personal items from the deceased prior to cremation.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Prepare patient for exam by explaining procedure, transferring patient to ultrasound table, scrubbing skin and applying gel, and positioning patient properly.
- Measure patients' body parts and mark locations where electrodes are to be placed.
- Provide and maintain life support and airway management and help prepare patients for emergency surgery.
- Attach electrodes to the patients' chests, arms, and legs, connect electrodes to leads from the electrocardiogram (EKG) machine, and operate the EKG machine to obtain a reading.
- Place and secure small, portable magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners on body part to be imaged, such as arm, leg, or head.
- Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments.
- Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.