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O*NET detailed work activitySterilize medical equipment or instruments
Stays humanHands-on care
12 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 Clean medical equipment or facilities, under the O*NET work activity group Performing General Physical Activities. 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
- Maintain dental equipment and sharpen and sterilize dental instruments.
- Clean and sterilize instruments, equipment, or materials.
- Clean and help maintain equipment or work areas and sterilize glassware, according to prescribed methods.
- Wash and sterilize equipment, using germicides and sterilizers.
- Clean or sterilize ophthalmic or surgical instruments.
- Clean or sterilize ophthalmic or surgical instruments.
- Operate sterilizing devices.
- Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
- Decontaminate ambulance interior following treatment of patient with infectious disease, and report case to proper authorities.
- Examine instruments, equipment, and operating room to ensure sterility.
- Examine instruments, equipment, and operating room to ensure sterility.