Hold patients to ensure proper positioning or safety.

Hold patients to ensure proper positioning or safety. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 7 occupations and seen in 8 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Assist healthcare practitioners during medical procedures. in Assisting and Caring for Others .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 8 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 0 (0%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Hold or restrain animals during veterinary procedures. · Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers · importance 4.8 · no direct exposure
• Position or hold patients in position for surgical preparation. · Nursing Assistants · importance 4.6 · no direct exposure
• Secure patients into or onto therapy equipment. · Physical Therapist Assistants · importance 4.6 · no direct exposure
• Secure patients into or onto therapy equipment. · Physical Therapist Aides · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Restrain or aid patients as necessary to prevent injury. · Psychiatric Aides · importance 4.4 · no direct exposure
• Restrain patients to prevent violence or injury or to assist physicians or nurses to administer treatments. · Orderlies · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Position or hold patients in position for surgical preparation. · Orderlies · importance 3.9 · no direct exposure
• Restrain or shackle violent patients. · Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians · importance 3.4 · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers
• Nursing Assistants
• Physical Therapist Assistants
• Physical Therapist Aides
• Psychiatric Aides
• Orderlies
• Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-hold-patients-to-ensure-proper-positioning-or-safety,
  title  = {Hold patients to ensure proper positioning or safety.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/detailed-activities/hold-patients-to-ensure-proper-positioning-or-safety}
}