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O*NET detailed work activityPrepare medical supplies or equipment for use
Stays humanHands-on care
20 jobs22 tasks
Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.
Part of Prepare medical equipment or work areas for use, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 22 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Select, prepare, or use equipment, monitors, supplies, or drugs for the administration of anesthetics.
- Set up examination rooms, ensuring that all necessary equipment is ready.
- Gather, arrange, or assemble instruments or supplies.
- Select or prepare artistic media or related equipment or devices to accomplish therapy session objectives.
- Set up and monitor medical equipment and devices such as cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators and alarms, oxygen delivery devices, transducers, or pressure lines.
- Maintain stock and supplies, preparing supplies for special examinations and ordering supplies when necessary.
- Prepare treatment rooms for surgery.
- Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
- Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment, or supplies and ensure that stock of supplies is maintained.
- Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
- Prepare wax bite blocks and impression trays for use.
- Prepare or calibrate equipment used to collect or analyze samples.
- Select and prepare medical equipment or medications to be taken to athletic competition sites.
- Set up 24-hour Holter and event monitors, scan and interpret tapes, and report results to physicians.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Position patient on examining table and set up and adjust equipment to obtain optimum view of specific body area as requested by physician.
- Set up and operate devices, such as mechanical ventilators, therapeutic gas administration apparatus, environmental control systems, or aerosol generators, following specified parameters of treatment.
- Set up, clean, and maintain laboratory equipment.
- Set up, operate, or monitor invasive equipment and devices, such as colostomy or tracheotomy equipment, mechanical ventilators, catheters, gastrointestinal tubes, and central lines.
- Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.
- Set up, program, or record montages or electrical combinations when testing peripheral nerve, spinal cord, subcortical, or cortical responses.
- Set up, maintain, calibrate, clean, and test sterility of medical laboratory equipment.
- Set up or monitor the administration of oxygen or medications.