How do they match: Orderlies

  • Institutional Aide
  • Operating Room Aide
  • Patient Transport Aide
  • Transport Aide
  • Transportation Aide
  • Ward Aide

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Assess physical conditions of patients to aid in diagnosis or treatment.