hospital orderly
Medical support staff
A hospital orderly is a worker who performs basic non-medical tasks in a hospital—transporting patients, moving equipment, changing linens, and assisting nurses with routine duties.
The position requires no medical training and sits at the bottom of the hospital hierarchy: He started as an orderly before going to nursing school.
- attendantOne who assists others
- stretcherPortable frame for casualties
- scrubsMedical staff uniform
- bedpanShallow toilet receptacle
- wheelchairSeated conveyance for mobility-impaired
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Hospital's top physician
attending physician · medical director · hospital administrator · department head · hospital CEO
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Physician who operates
physician · nurse · doctor · specialist · anesthesiologist
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