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O*NET detailed work activityApply bandages, dressings, or splints
Stays humanHands-on care
11 jobs12 tasks
Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.
Part of Administer basic health care or medical treatments, under the O*NET work activity group Assisting and Caring for Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 12 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Prepare dressings or bandages and apply or assist with their application following surgery.
- Prepare and apply sterile wound dressings.
- Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
- Apply protective or injury preventive devices, such as tape, bandages, or braces, to body parts, such as ankles, fingers, or wrists.
- Assist in applying casts, splints, braces, or similar devices.
- Suggest and apply the use of supports such as straps, tapes, bandages, or braces if necessary.
- Dress and suture wounds and apply splints or other protective devices.
- Change dressings on wounds.
- Apply clean dressings, slings, stockings, or support bandages, under direction of nurse or physician.
- Change dressings.
- Administer first aid in emergency situations.