Provide basic patient care under direction of nursing staff. Perform duties, such as feed, bathe, dress, groom, or move patients, or change linens.

Other names for Nursing Aides, Orderlies, and Attendants: Attendant, Birth Attendant, Caregiver, Cart Attendant, Certified Medication Aide (CMA), Certified Medication Technician, Certified Nurse Aide (CNA), Certified Nurse Assistant, Certified Nurses Aide (CNA), Certified Nursing Aide, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), Competency Evaluated Nurse Aide (CENA), First Aid Attendant, First Aid Nurse, Gericare Aide, Health Aide, Health Care Aide, Health Care Assistant, Health Service Worker, Hospice Aide, Hospice Entrance Attendant, Hospital Aide, Hospital Assistant, Hospital Attendant, Hospital Corpsman, Hospital Medical Assistant, Hospital Orderly, Infirmary Attendant, Institutional Aide, Licensed Nursing Assistant, Medical Aide, Medical Attendant, Medication Aide, New Patient Escort, Nurse Assistant, Nurse Sitter, Nurse Technician, Nurse's Aide, Nursery Technician, Nursing Aid, Nursing Aide, Nursing Assistant, Nursing Home Aide, Operating Room Orderly, Orderly, Patient Care Assistant (PCA), Patient Care Associate, Patient Care Technician (PCT), Patient Escort, Patient Sitter, Patient Transporter, Practical Nurse, Psychiatric Attendant, Resident Assistant, Restorative Aide, State Tested Nurses Assistant (STNA), State Tested Nursing Assistant (STNA), Student Nurse, Surgical Aide, Ward Aide, Ward Attendant, Ward Helper,

• Restrain patients if necessary.
• Maintain inventory by storing, preparing, sterilizing, and issuing supplies such as dressing packs and treatment trays.
• Explain medical instructions to patients and family members.
• Perform clerical duties such as processing documents and scheduling appointments.
• Work as part of a medical team that examines and treats clinic outpatients.
• Set up equipment such as oxygen tents, portable x-ray machines, and overhead irrigation bottles.
• Turn and reposition bedridden patients, alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores.
• Answer patients' call signals.
• Feed patients who are unable to feed themselves.
• Observe patients' conditions, measuring and recording food and liquid intake and output and vital signs, and report changes to professional staff.
• Provide patient care by supplying and emptying bed pans, applying dressings and supervising exercise routines.
• Provide patients with help walking, exercising, and moving in and out of bed.
• Bathe, groom, shave, dress, or drape patients to prepare them for surgery, treatment, or examination.
• Collect specimens such as urine, feces, or sputum.
• Prepare, serve, and collect food trays.
• Clean rooms and change linens.
• Transport patients to treatment units, using a wheelchair or stretcher.
• Deliver messages, documents and specimens.
• Answer phones and direct visitors.
• Administer medications and treatments, such as catheterizations, suppositories, irrigations, enemas, massages, and douches, as directed by a physician or nurse.

• Patient care beds or accessories for general use
• Vascular or compression apparel or supports
• Patient bed or table scales for general use
• Blood pressure cuff kits
• Clinical trapeze bars
• Therapeutic heating or cooling pads or compresses or packs
• Crutches or crutch accessories
• Desktop computers
• Electronic medical thermometers
• Enema kits or accessories
• Enteral feeding infusion pump tubing sets
• Gurneys or scissor lifts
• Clinical hydraulic lifts or accessories
• Therapeutic heating or cooling blankets or drapes
• Mechanical stethoscopes or accessories
• Medical oxygen masks or parts
• Notebook computers
• Suction kits
• Medical gas cylinders or related devices
• Medical aerosol tents
• Patient lifts or accessories
• Patient stabilization or fall prevention devices or accessories
• Walkers or rollators
• Personal computers
• Medical x ray units for general diagnostic use
• Pulse oximeter units
• Specimen collectors
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
• Surgical gloves
• Surgical suction or irrigation tubings or accessories
• Electrocardiography EKG transmitter or telemetry or accessories
• Urinary catheterization kits or accessories
• Urinalysis test strips
• Canes or cane accessories
• Wheelchairs

Word processing software

Calendar and scheduling software

Data base user interface and query software

Medical software