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A professional who accompanies and assists ambulance driver on calls. Respnsibilities include:
* Assists in lifting patient onto wheeled cart or stretcher and into and out of ambulance.
* Renders first aid, such as bandaging, splinting, and administering oxygen.
* May be required to have Red Cross first-aid training certificate.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who administers prescribed medications to patients and maintains related medical records under supervision of nurse, general duty. Respnsibilities include:
* Verifies identity of patient receiving medication and records name of drug, dosage, and time of administration on specified forms or records.
* Presents medication to patient and observes ingestion or other application, or administers medication, using specified procedures.
* Takes vital signs or observes patient to detect response to specified types of medications and prepares report or notifies designated personnel of unexpected reactions.
* Documents reasons prescribed drugs are not administered.
* Gives direct patient care, such as bathing, dressing, and feeding patients, and assisting in examinations and treatments.
* May receive supply of ordered medications and apportion, mix, or assemble drugs for administration to patient.
* May record and restock medication inventories.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant in occupational therapy program in hospital or similar institution. Respnsibilities include:
* Performs program support services, such as transporting patient, assembling equipment, and preparing and maintaining work areas, as directed by professional staff.
* Assists in maintaining supplies and equipment.
* May help professional staff demonstrate therapy techniques, such as manual and creative arts, games, and daily living activities to patients.
* May assist in selected aspects of patient services as assigned.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists patients, working under direction of nursing and medical staff in psychiatric, chemical dependency, or similar setting. Respnsibilities include:
* Accompanies patients to shower rooms, and assists them in bathing, dressing, and grooming.
* Accompanies patients to and from wards for examination and treatment, administers prescribed medications, measures vital signs, performs routine nursing procedures, such as collecting laboratory specimens, giving enemas and douches, and drawing blood samples, and records information in patients' charts.
* Assists patients in becoming accustomed to hospital routine and encourages them to participate in social and recreational activities to promote rehabilitation.
* Observes patients to ensure that none wanders from ward areas or grounds.
* Feeds patients or attempts to persuade them to eat, and notes and records reasons for rejection of food.
* Observes patients to detect unusual behavior, and aids or restrains them to prevent injury to themselves or others.
* May escort patients off grounds to medical or dental appointments, library, church services, motion pictures, or athletic events.
* May clean rooms, ward furnishings, walls, and floors, using water, detergents, and disinfectants.
* May change bed linens.
* May interview patients upon admission and record data obtained.
* May be designated Ward Supervisor when responsible for patient care and other services of single ward.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists in providing self-care training and therapeutic treatments to residents of mental retardation center. Respnsibilities include:
* Demonstrates activities such as bathing and dressing to train residents in daily self-care practices.
* Converses with residents to reinforce positive behaviors and to promote social interaction.
* Serves meals and eats with residents to act as role model.
* Accompanies residents on shopping trips and instructs and counsels residents in purchase of personal items.
* Aids staff in administering therapeutic activities, such as physical exercises, occupational arts and crafts, and recreational games, to residents.
* Restrains disruptive residents to prevent injury to themselves and others.
* Observes and documents residents' behaviors, such as speech production, feeding patterns, and toilet training, to facilitate assessment and development of treatment goals.
* Attends to routine health-care needs of residents under supervision of medical personnel.
* May give medications as prescribed by physician.
* May train parents or guardians in care of deinstitutionalized residents.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists in providing self-care training and therapeutic treatments to residents of mental retardation center. Respnsibilities include:
* Demonstrates activities such as bathing and dressing to train residents in daily self-care practices.
* Converses with residents to reinforce positive behaviors and to promote social interaction.
* Serves meals and eats with residents to act as role model.
* Accompanies residents on shopping trips and instructs and counsels residents in purchase of personal items.
* Aids staff in administering therapeutic activities, such as physical exercises, occupational arts and crafts, and recreational games, to residents.
* Restrains disruptive residents to prevent injury to themselves and others.
* Observes and documents residents' behaviors, such as speech production, feeding patterns, and toilet training, to facilitate assessment and development of treatment goals.
* Attends to routine health-care needs of residents under supervision of medical personnel.
* May give medications as prescribed by physician.
* May train parents or guardians in care of deinstitutionalized residents.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares bodies, specimens of human organs, and morgue room to assist pathologist in postmortem examinations. Respnsibilities include:
* Places body in compartment tray of refrigerator or on autopsy table, using portable hoist and stretcher.
* Lays out surgical instruments and laboratory supplies for postmortem examinations.
* Washes table, storage trays, and instruments, sharpens knives, and replaces soiled linens.
* Records identifying information for morgue file.
* Releases body to authorized person.
* May close post mortem incisions, using surgical needle and cord.
* May fill cranium with plaster.
* May feed, water, and clean quarters for animals used in medical research.
* May prepare preserving solutions according to formulas.
* May preserve specimens and stain slides.
* May photograph specimens.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who attends to personal needs of handicapped children while in school to receive specialized academic and physical training. Respnsibilities include:
* Wheels handicapped children to classes, lunchrooms, treatment rooms, and other areas of building.
* Secures children in equipment, such as chairs, slings, or stretchers, and places or hoists children into baths or pools.
* Monitors children using life support equipment to detect indications of malfunctioning of equipment and calls for medical assistance when needed.
* Helps children to walk, board buses, put on prosthetic appliances, eat, dress, bathe, and perform other physical activities as their needs require.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties in care of patients in hospital, nursing home, or other medical facility, under direction of nursing and medical staff. Respnsibilities include:
* Answers signal lights, bells, or intercom system to determine patients' needs.
* Bathes, dresses, and undresses patients.
* Serves and collects food trays and feeds patients requiring help.
* Transports patients, using wheelchair or wheeled cart, or assists patients to walk.
* Drapes patients for examinations and treatments, and remains with patients, performing such duties as holding instruments and adjusting lights.
* Turns and repositions bedfast patients, alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores.
* Changes bed linens, runs errands, directs visitors, and answers telephone.
* Takes and records temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration rates, and food and fluid intake and output, as directed.
* Cleans, sterilizes, stores, prepares, and issues dressing packs, treatment trays, and other supplies.
* Dusts and cleans patients' rooms.
* May be assigned to specific area of hospital, nursing home, or medical facility.
* May assist nursing staff in care of geriatric patients and be designated Geriatric Nurse Assistant.
* May assist in providing medical treatment and personal care to patients in private home settings and be designated Home Health Aide.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties in care of patients in hospital, nursing home, or other medical facility, under direction of nursing and medical staff. Respnsibilities include:
* Answers signal lights, bells, or intercom system to determine patients' needs.
* Bathes, dresses, and undresses patients.
* Serves and collects food trays and feeds patients requiring help.
* Transports patients, using wheelchair or wheeled cart, or assists patients to walk.
* Drapes patients for examinations and treatments, and remains with patients, performing such duties as holding instruments and adjusting lights.
* Turns and repositions bedfast patients, alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores.
* Changes bed linens, runs errands, directs visitors, and answers telephone.
* Takes and records temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration rates, and food and fluid intake and output, as directed.
* Cleans, sterilizes, stores, prepares, and issues dressing packs, treatment trays, and other supplies.
* Dusts and cleans patients' rooms.
* May be assigned to specific area of hospital, nursing home, or medical facility.
* May assist nursing staff in care of geriatric patients and be designated Geriatric Nurse Assistant.
* May assist in providing medical treatment and personal care to patients in private home settings and be designated Home Health Aide.
Industry:Professional careers
