How do they match: Orderlies

  • Health Service Worker
  • Dialysis Patient Care Technician
  • Institutional Aide
  • Operating Room Aide
  • Operating Room Assistant
  • Patient Care Technician
  • Patient Care Technician Pro Re Nata
  • Patient Care Assistant
  • Patient Transport Aide
  • Resident Assistant
  • Transport Aide
  • Transportation Aide
  • Ward Aide
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Turn or reposition bedridden patients, alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores.

  • Assist patients with daily activities.
  • Assess physical conditions of patients to aid in diagnosis or treatment.
  • Record vital statistics or other health information.