- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who attends to comfort and needs of thermal bath customers cooling off and resting after bath and massage. Respnsibilities include:
* Assigns cot to customer.
* Rubs customer's body with alcohol and oil to soothe skin.
* Covers customer with sheet.
* Times length of rest period.
* Procures beverage, food, or other items on request.
* May arrange for valet services.
* May change bedding on cots.
* May shine shoes.
* May sweep and mop floors and dust furniture.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who serves patrons in dry-heat cabinet or room or steamroom of athletic, bathing, or other establishment. Respnsibilities include:
* Spreads sheet or towel over seating facility in cabinet or rooms and seats patrons.
* Supplies drinking water and renders other services requested, such as wrapping cool towels about patron's head, spraying body with water, or timing length of bath.
* Gives shower baths and furnishes towel or dries patron.
* Collects soiled linen and cleans bathing area and facilities, such as tubs and showers.
* May turn valves and switches to adjust heating equipment, regulating amount of steam or temperature.
* May pour water over heated rocks to prepare steamroom.
* May be designated according to bath facility served as Dry-Heat-Cabinet Attendant; Dry-Heat-Room Attendant; Shower Attendant; Steam-Room Attendant.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements. Respnsibilities include:
* Washes and dries body, using germicidal soap and towels or hot air drier.
* Inserts convex celluloid or cotton between eyeball and eyelid to prevent slipping and sinking of eyelid.
* Presses diaphragm to evacuate air from lungs.
* May join lips, using needle and thread or wire.
* Packs body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter.
* Makes incision in arm or thigh, using scalpel, inserts pump tubes into artery, and starts pump that drains blood from circulatory system and replaces blood with embalming fluid.
* Incises stomach and abdominal walls and probes internal organs, such as bladder and liver, using trocar to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs.
* Attaches trocar to pump-tube, starts pump, and repeats probing to force embalming fluid into organs.
* Closes incisions, using needle and suture.
* Reshapes or reconstructs disfigured or maimed bodies, using materials, such as clay, cotton, plaster of paris, and wax.
* Applies cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance.
* Dresses body and places body in casket.
* May arrange funeral details, such as type of casket or burial dress and place of interment.
* May maintain records, such as itemized list of clothing or valuables delivered with body and names of persons embalmed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in planning, selling, and instructing fitness plans for clients of health club. Respnsibilities include:
* Assigns and adjusts work schedules to meet customer demand.
* Interviews, hires, and trains new employees.
* Observes workers in performance of duties and gives remedial training to correct worker deficiencies and ensure courteous service to patrons.
* Plans and sells figure-controlling programs to prospective patrons.
* Assists subordinates in interviewing, measuring, and evaluating patrons' physical condition to determine appropriate fitness program.
* Prepares contract forms, obtains signatures, collects deposits, and issues membership cards to patrons accepting plans.
* Demonstrates operation and explains purpose of equipment, such as treadmill exerciser and stationary bicycle, and instructs patrons in their use.
* Monitors patron's exercise program to ensure adherence to specified techniques.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares embalmed bodies for interment. Respnsibilities include:
* Manicures nails, using files and nail polish, and performs other grooming tasks, such as arching and plucking eyebrows and removing facial hair, using depilatory cream and tweezers.
* Shampoos, waves, presses, curls, brushes, and combs hair, and applies cosmetics on face to restore natural appearance, following photograph of deceased, or verbal or written description obtained from family.
* Dresses and arranges body in casket.
* May select casket or burial dress, arrange floral displays, and prepare obituary notices.
* May record personal effects delivered with body and information about deceased.
* May wash and dry bodies, using germicidal soap and towels or hot air drier.
* May reshape or reconstruct damaged or disfigured areas of body, using such materials as cotton or foam rubber.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes hair from skin of patron by electrolysis. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions sterile bulbous or round-tipped needles into holders (electrodes) of galvanic or short wave electrical equipment.
* Places secondary electrode in hand or immerses fingers or hand of patron in water-filled electrode cup to complete circuit and stabilize amount of electricity when equipment is operating.
* Swabs skin area with antiseptic solution to sterilize it.
* Inserts needle or needles into hair follicle and into organ beneath hair root (papilla).
* Presses switch and adjusts timing and rheostat controls of equipment that regulate amount of electricity flowing through needle or needles to decompose cells of papilla.
* Removes needle or needles, and pulls hair from follicle, using tweezers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who gives hair and scalp conditioning treatments for hygienic or remedial purposes. Respnsibilities include:
* Massages, shampoos, and steams hair and scalp of patron to clean and remove excess oil, using liquid soap, rinses, and hot towels.
* Applies medication to and massages scalp to increase blood circulation, stimulate glandular activity, and promote growth of hair, using hands and fingers or vibrating equipment.
* Administers other remedial treatments to relieve such conditions as dandruff or itching scalp, using such therapeutic equipment as infrared or ultraviolet lamps.
* Advises patrons with chronic or potentially contagious scalp conditions to seek medical treatment.
* May maintain treatment records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who pricks skin of patron, using needled electric tool, that inserts indelible nontoxic pigment into skin to form decorative or ornamental design. Respnsibilities include:
* Shaves area to receive tattoo and washes it, using germicidal soap.
* Presses charcoal-coated stencil, draws design, or traces pattern of design onto skin of patron, to mark outline of design.
* Dips needles of tool into colored pigment solution and presses needles into skin to insert indelible pigment into skin following outline of design.
* Applies sterile dressing to area.
* Sterilizes needles in steam-heated cabinet (sterilizer).
* Mixes nontoxic colored pigments according to formula.
* Adjusts and repairs needled electric tool, using handtools, such as screwdrivers and pliers.
* May draw original designs on paper, trace designs onto acetate sheet, and cut out design to form pattern or stencil, using stylus and knife.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who dispenses supplies in beauty parlor or barber shop. Respnsibilities include:
* Counts, sorts, issues, and collects articles, such as towels, drapes, combs, brushes, curlers, and nets.
* Washes combs and brushes in antiseptic soap solution and places them in sterilizing cabinet.
* Dilutes concentrated shampoo, rinses, and waving solutions with water according to instructions.
* Dissolves cake soap in water to make shampoo.
* Assembles materials, solutions, and equipment specified for individual treatment, such as facial, permanent wave, and manicure.
* Maintains perpetual supply inventory and lists items needed to replace stock.
* Sweeps floor and tidies rooms.
Industry:Professional careers
