How do they match: Orderlies

  • Emergency Room Orderly
  • Operating Room Assistant
  • Operating Room Aide
  • Operating Room Orderly
  • Patient Care Assistant
  • Resident Assistant
  • Ward Assistant

  • Transport patients to areas such as operating rooms or x-ray rooms using wheelchairs, stretchers, or moveable beds. May maintain stocks of supplies or clean and transport equipment. Psychiatric orderlies are included in Psychiatric Aides.

  • Clean and sanitize patient rooms, bathrooms, examination rooms, or other patient areas.
  • Lift or assist others to lift patients to move them on or off beds, examination tables, surgical tables, or stretchers.
  • Provide physical support to patients to assist them to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising.
  • Restrain patients to prevent violence or injury or to assist physicians or nurses to administer treatments.
  • Stock utility rooms, nonmedical storage rooms, or cleaning carts with supplies.
  • Transport patients to treatment units, testing units, operating rooms, or other areas, using wheelchairs, stretchers, or moveable beds.
  • Transport portable medical equipment or medical supplies between rooms or departments.
  • Turn or reposition bedridden patients, alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores.

  • Assist patients with daily activities.
  • Clean patient rooms or patient treatment rooms.