Which jobs involve prepare medical supplies or equipment for use?

20 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity, including Acute Care Nurses, Art Therapists, Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians, Critical Care Nurses, Dental Laboratory Technicians.

What kind of work is this?

It is physical, manual and inspection work. O*NET files it under the work activity "Handling and Moving Objects" (element 4.A.3.a.2).

Prepare medical supplies or equipment for use

Little of this can be handed to software today.

This happens in the physical world, so software agents do not touch it. Automation here means robotics and machinery, which is a different market from the one mapped on this site, on a much slower clock.

Key facts about this work activity
How automatable	Barely automatable
Kind of work	Physical, manual and inspection work
Jobs that do it	20 occupations
Tool categories that apply	None
O*NET activity	Handling and Moving Objects (4.A.3.a.2)

What this looks like on the job

Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 20 occupations that perform it.

Prepare or calibrate equipment used to collect or analyze samples.
Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.
Set up and operate devices, such as mechanical ventilators, therapeutic gas administration apparatus, environmental control systems, or aerosol generators, following specified parameters of treatment.
Select or prepare artistic media or related equipment or devices to accomplish therapy session objectives.
Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment, or supplies and ensure that stock of supplies is maintained.
Set up, operate, or monitor invasive equipment and devices, such as colostomy or tracheotomy equipment, mechanical ventilators, catheters, gastrointestinal tubes, and central lines.
Set up and monitor medical equipment and devices such as cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators and alarms, oxygen delivery devices, transducers, or pressure lines.
Select, prepare, or use equipment, monitors, supplies, or drugs for the administration of anesthetics.
Select and prepare medical equipment or medications to be taken to athletic competition sites.
Set up, clean, and maintain laboratory equipment.
Set up, maintain, calibrate, clean, and test sterility of medical laboratory equipment.
Set up 24-hour Holter and event monitors, scan and interpret tapes, and report results to physicians.
Maintain stock and supplies, preparing supplies for special examinations and ordering supplies when necessary.
Position patient on examining table and set up and adjust equipment to obtain optimum view of specific body area as requested by physician.
Prepare treatment rooms for surgery.
Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
Set up, program, or record montages or electrical combinations when testing peripheral nerve, spinal cord, subcortical, or cortical responses.
Gather, arrange, or assemble instruments or supplies.

What we would actually use

Nothing in our landscape addresses this work. That is the honest answer rather than a padded list: this activity needs a person present, or a machine rather than a software agent.

Our pickBuy nothing

Nothing on this site applies. Automation here is robotics and machinery, a different market on a much slower clock, and no software subscription moves it.

Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.

How people actually do it

No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.

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Who does this work

20 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.

Work that goes with it

O*NET groups these under “Prepare medical equipment or work areas for use”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.

Related work activities
Activity	Jobs
Prepare medical instruments or equipment for use	10
Prepare patient treatment areas for use	5

Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.