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O*NET detailed work activityAssist patients with daily activities
Stays humanHands-on care
9 jobs19 tasks
Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.
Part of Assist individuals with special needs, 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, 19 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Aid patients in dressing and grooming themselves.
- Provide physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising.
- Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.
- Undress, wash, and dress patients who are unable to do so for themselves.
- Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.
- Bathe patients.
- Perform hygiene-related duties, such as clipping animals' claws or cleaning and polishing teeth.
- Wash, groom, shave, or drape patients to prepare them for surgery, treatment, or examination.
- Assist patients to dress, undress, or put on and remove supportive devices, such as braces, splints, or slings.
- Provide patients with assistance in bathing, dressing, or grooming, demonstrating these skills as necessary.
- Exercise animals or provide them with companionship.
- Remind patients to take medications or nutritional supplements.
- Assist patients to dress, undress, or put on and remove supportive devices, such as braces, splints, or slings.
- Dust, spray, or bathe animals to control insect pests.
- 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.
- Care for children with disabilities or who have sick parents or parents with disabilities.
- Groom, trim, or clip animals' coats.
- Participate in patient care tasks, such as assisting with passing food trays, feeding residents, or bathing residents on bed rest.