- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who performs any combination of following tasks, as directed by nursing and medical staff, to care for patients in hospital, nursing home, or other medical facility. Respnsibilities include:
* Bathes patients and gives alcohol rubs.
* Measures and records intake and output of liquids, and takes and records temperature, and pulse and respiration rate.
* Gives enemas.
* Carries meal trays to patients and feeds patients unable to feed themselves.
* Lifts patients onto and from bed, and transports patients to other areas, such as operating and x-ray rooms, by rolling bed, or using wheelchair or wheeled stretcher.
* Sets up equipment, such as oxygen tents, portable x-ray machines, and overhead irrigation bottles.
* Makes beds and collects soiled linen.
* Cleans rooms and corridors.
* Bathes deceased patients, accompanies body to morgue, and places personal belongings in mortuary box.
* Administers catheterizations and bladder irrigations.
* Accompanies discharged patients home or to other institutions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to assist personnel in Respiratory Therapy Department. Respnsibilities include:
* Cleans, disinfects, and sterilizes equipment used in administration of respiratory therapy.
* Examines equipment to detect worn tubes, loose connections, or other indications of disrepair, and notifies supervisor of need for maintenance.
* Starts equipment and observes gauges measuring pressure, rate of flow, and continuity to test equipment, and notifies supervisor of malfunctions.
* Assists in preparation of inventory records.
* Delivers oxygen tanks and other equipment and supplies to specified hospital locations.
* Assists in administration of gas or aerosol therapy as directed by respiratory therapist and prescribed by physician.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who escorts or transports patients within hospital or other medical facility. Respnsibilities include:
* Determines patient name, destination, mode of travel, time, and other data, following written or oral instructions.
* Directs or escorts incoming patients from admitting office or reception desk to designated area.
* Carries patient's luggage.
* Assists patient in walking to prevent accidents by falling, or transports nonambulatory patient, using wheelchair.
* Transports patient, alone or with assistance, in bed, wheeled cart, or wheelchair to designated areas within facility during patient stay.
* Delivers messages, mail, medical records, and other items.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who escorts or transports patients within hospital or other medical facility. Respnsibilities include:
* Determines patient name, destination, mode of travel, time, and other data, following written or oral instructions.
* Directs or escorts incoming patients from admitting office or reception desk to designated area.
* Carries patient's luggage.
* Assists patient in walking to prevent accidents by falling, or transports nonambulatory patient, using wheelchair.
* Transports patient, alone or with assistance, in bed, wheeled cart, or wheelchair to designated areas within facility during patient stay.
* Delivers messages, mail, medical records, and other items.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who collects and identifies remains of deceased military personnel, both buried and unburied, and evacuates bodies to rear area for burial activities. Respnsibilities include:
* Searches battlefields and other areas for unburied dead and for isolated and unmarked graves.
* Exhumes bodies of buried dead.
* Examines immediate area for identification items, such as dog tags, watches, and similar personal effects, and transports remains and personal effects to rear area.
* Takes fingerprints, skeletal x rays, and prepares teeth chart to aid in identifying remains.
* Examines remains, removes personal effects, and records property inventory on designated forms.
* Records identity of remains including name, military unit, location, and cause and date of death.
* Indicates location of temporary graves on map, sketch, or overlay for purposes of future recovery.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who receives and returns baggage to passengers at motorbus or airline terminals. Respnsibilities include:
* Prepares and attaches baggage claim checks.
* Stacks baggage on specified carts or conveyors.
* Returns baggage to patrons on receipt of claim check.
* May receive, weigh, and bill parcels for express shipment by bus.
* May weigh baggage and collect excess weight charge.
* May complete baggage insurance forms, determine rate from schedule and collect charge from customer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who receives and returns baggage to passengers at motorbus or airline terminals. Respnsibilities include:
* Prepares and attaches baggage claim checks.
* Stacks baggage on specified carts or conveyors.
* Returns baggage to patrons on receipt of claim check.
* May receive, weigh, and bill parcels for express shipment by bus.
* May weigh baggage and collect excess weight charge.
* May complete baggage insurance forms, determine rate from schedule and collect charge from customer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who carries baggage for passengers of airline, railroad, or motorbus by hand or handtruck, to waiting or baggage room, onto train or bus, or to taxicab or private automobile.
* Performs related services, such as calling taxicabs, directing persons to ticket windows and rest rooms, and assisting handicapped passengers upon their arrival or departure.
* May clean terminal floors; wash walls, windows and counters; and dust furniture.
* When employed in airline terminal, is designated Skycap.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in storing guests' wearing apparel, parcels and other articles in checkrooms of establishment.
* Reviews printed schedule of activities to determine services needed.
* Assigns work schedules and keeps time records of personnel.
* Receives customers' complaints concerning quality of service and rectifies or instructs workers to rectify complaints.
* Submits reports of unclaimed or lost articles to hotel security department.
* Performs duties as described under checkroom attendant.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who stores wearing apparel, luggage, bundles, and other articles for patrons of an establishment or employees of business establishment, issuing claim check for articles checked and returning articles on receipt of check.
* May be designated according to article stored as Baggage Checker; Coat Checker; Hat Checker; Stand-By (motion picture); Wrap Checker.
Industry:Professional careers
