How do they match: Orderlies

  • Patient Care Technician
  • Patient Care Technician Pro Re Nata
  • Patient Care Assistant
  • Patient Care Associate
  • Patient Escort
  • Patient Safety Attendant
  • Patient Sitter
  • Patient Transport Aide
  • Patient Transport Orderly
  • Patient Transporter
  • Dialysis Patient Care Technician
  • Dialysis Patient Care Tech
  • New Patient Escort

  • 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.

  • Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients' needs.
  • 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.
  • Position or hold patients in position for surgical preparation.
  • 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.
  • Transport patients to treatment units, testing units, operating rooms, or other areas, using wheelchairs, stretchers, or moveable beds.
  • Turn or reposition bedridden patients, alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores.

  • Adjust positions of patients on beds or tables.
  • Assess physical conditions of patients to aid in diagnosis or treatment.
  • Assist patients with daily activities.
  • Clean patient rooms or patient treatment rooms.
  • Feed patients.
  • Hold patients to ensure proper positioning or safety.
  • Move patients to or from treatment areas.
  • Stock medical or patient care supplies.