NURSING AIDES, ORDERLIES, AND ATTENDANTS: Work under the direction of nursing or medical staff to provide auxiliary services in the care of patients. Perform duties such as answering patient's call bell, serving and collecting food trays, and feeding patients. Orderlies are primarily concerned with setting up equipment and relieving nurses of heavier work. Exclude Psychiatric Aides and Home Health Aides.

• Apply gerontology theory
• Apply infectious materials procedures
• Apply institutional care procedures
• Apply interpersonal communication techniques
• Apply nursing practices & procedures
• Apply nutritional practices
• Apply patient care procedures
• Apply personal care procedures
• Apply sanitation practices to health care
• Collect specimens
• Comprehend body response variations
• Feed patients
• Give enemas
• Inventory medical supplies and instruments
• Keep records & maintain files
• Lift/transport ill/injured persons
• Maintain medical records
• Manage client assets in institutional or assisted living situations
• Manage medical records
• Perform patient observation
• Perform routine medical treatments
• Post medical insurance billings
• Prepare medical treatment room
• Prepare patients for exams & treatments
• Prepare patients for tests
• Set up patient care equipment
• Take vital signs
• Understand & use medical terminology
• Use behavior modification with institutionalized/developmentally disabled
• Use clinical sterilizing techniques
• Use isolation procedures for infected laundry
• Use nursing terminology
• Use personal/vital care procedures in institutional living facility
• Use physical intervention techniques in clinical/institutional setting
• Use principles of gerontology
• Weigh patients
• Work as a team member
• Work with persons with mental disabilities/illnesses