Arrange treatment supplies to keep them in order.

“Arrange treatment supplies to keep them in order.” is a core task performed by Physical Therapist Aides. Among the occupation's 19 rated tasks, workers place it 6th by importance (#14 most important). About 96% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Prepare medical equipment or work areas for use. in Handling and Moving Objects

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Clean and organize work area and disinfect equipment after treatment. · importance 4.5
• Secure patients into or onto therapy equipment. · importance 4.5
• Instruct, motivate, safeguard, or assist patients practicing exercises or functional activities, under direction of medical staff. · importance 4.4
• Confer with physical therapy staff or others to discuss and evaluate patient information for planning, modifying, or coordinating treatment. · importance 4.3
• Observe patients during treatment to compile and evaluate data on patients' responses and progress and report to physical therapist. · importance 4.2
• Administer active or passive manual therapeutic exercises, therapeutic massage, or heat, light, sound, water, or electrical modality treatments, such as ultrasound. · importance 4.2
• Change linens, such as bed sheets and pillow cases. · importance 4.2
• Record treatment given and equipment used. · importance 4.2
• Transport patients to and from treatment areas, using wheelchairs or providing standing support. · importance 4.2
• Measure patient's range-of-joint motion, body parts, or vital signs to determine effects of treatments or for patient evaluations. · importance 4.2
• Perform clerical duties, such as taking inventory, ordering supplies, answering telephone, taking messages, or filling out forms. · importance 4.0
• Schedule patient appointments with physical therapists and coordinate therapists' schedules. · importance 4.0
• Train patients to use orthopedic braces, prostheses, or supportive devices. · importance 4.0
• Administer traction to relieve neck or back pain, using intermittent or static traction equipment. · importance 3.7

See all tasks on the Physical Therapist Aides page.

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-task-4284,
  title  = {Arrange treatment supplies to keep them in order.},
  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/tasks/task-4284}
}