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Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants provide basic patient care under direction of nursing staff; performed duties include feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, moving patients, and changing linens. Psychiatric aides assist mentally impaired or emotionally disturbed patients, working under direction of nursing and medical staff. Home health aides provide routine, personal healthcare, such as bathing, dressing, or grooming, to elderly, convalescent, or disabled persons in the home of patients or in a residential care facility.
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