Hospital Support Job Skills Task Cards | Infection Control + Privacy

Hospitals have many support jobs that are not patient care: cleaning rooms, stocking supplies, delivering meal trays, moving wheelchairs after training. Many hospital internship programs place students in exactly these jobs. The rules are strict: clean hands at every door, read the door sign, keep what you see private, and stop and ask a nurse when you are not sure. This set teaches the words, the steps, and those rules.

This set covers hospital support jobs that are not patient care: environmental services, dietary, central supply, and transport. It fits hospital internship programs and work-based learning at a hospital. General soft skills are in my Soft Skills Scenario Cards.

What's included:

• Teacher page with three support levels and a 2-week plan

• Job snapshot: jobs, a typical shift, and what supervisors look for

• 16 vocabulary cards and a vocabulary match

• 5 task sequence cards (enter a patient room, deliver a meal tray, restock a supply room, clean a room after discharge, push a wheelchair (after training)) plus a blank card

• Put-it-in-order worksheets for all 5 tasks

• 8 safety rules and a 10-item safe or unsafe sort with "do this instead"

• 12 procedure cards (what is the rule here?) and a procedure planner

• On-the-job checklist for student and supervisor ratings, with an IEP data note

• Answer key and blank cards to write your own

How I use it:

I start with the job snapshot and the vocabulary cards. Then I model each task card and have students practice while a partner reads the steps. A paper door sign, gloves, and a tray with a printed ticket make the room-entry and tray cards real. The procedure cards work best a few at a time as a warm-up or with role-play. Before an internship rotation or job site visit, students set goals on the checklist, and the supervisor or job coach rates the same skills afterward.

How this set is different from my other job skills resources: my Soft Skills Scenario Cards cover general "what would you do" moments that happen at any job, and my Task Analysis Data Sheets break down everyday routines with data sheets. This set is only about one workplace: its words, its tasks, and its rules. None of the scenario cards or routines are repeated here.

Part of the Job Site Task Card Series: one set per workplace, all in the same layout, so you can mix sites across your caseload and students already know how the cards work when they move to a new site.

Pairs well with:

• Soft Skills Scenario Cards (the soft skills side of any job)

• Task Analysis Data Sheets (hand-washing and cleaning routines with data sheets)

• Self-Advocacy Communication Cards (Hand This Page and an All About Me card for a new job)

• Work Schedules + Time Cards (day, evening, and weekend shifts)

Who it is for: high school special education, transition programs for ages 18 to 21, vocational and CTE classes, job coaches, and work-based learning teams. Grades 9th to 12th and adult transition.

What you download: one printable PDF, 13 pages, US Letter. Answer key included.

Job tasks and rules vary by employer. Use this to prepare students, and always follow the training and rules at the actual job site.

From the author of The Transition Map (Jeremy D. Gooch), available in paperback and Kindle.

Written by Jeremy D. Gooch, a teacher with 20+ years in education. All student names and stories are made up.