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.