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HN Hospitalman

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Overview

A Hospitalman provides patient care and assists with disease and injury prevention, medical and dental treatment, physical examinations, medications, and laboratory and pharmacy services. This sailor may serve ashore, afloat, or with operational units, perform tactical combat casualty care, transport patients, maintain health standards, and instruct personnel in medical aid and hygiene.

Core Skills

  • Tactical combat casualty care delivery
  • Medication and parenteral solution assistance
  • Environmental and occupational health support
  • Sick and injured patient transport

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Medical Assistants

HN experience assisting with physical examinations, patient care, medication administration, and medical department administration overlaps with clinical medical assisting.

How to prepare: Compare your military training record and graduation date with AMT's RMA military route. That route accepts graduates of formal U.S. Armed Forces medical services programs within the last four years or applicants scheduled to graduate, and certification requires passing the AMT examination.

What the civilian work involves
  • Interview patients to obtain medical information and measure their vital signs, weight, and height.
  • Record patients' medical history, vital statistics, or information such as test results in medical records.
  • Prepare treatment rooms for patient examinations, keeping the rooms neat and clean.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Epic Systems
  • eClinicalWorks EHR software

Orderlies

HN experience providing patient care and assisting with transportation of sick and injured people transfers directly to hospital patient movement.

How to prepare: Arrange hands-on practice in safe patient transfers between beds, examination tables, wheelchairs, and stretchers.

What the civilian work involves
  • Lift or assist others to lift patients to move them on or off beds, examination tables, surgical tables, or stretchers.
  • Transport patients to treatment units, testing units, operating rooms, or other areas, using wheelchairs, stretchers, or moveable beds.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Electronic medical record EMR software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol I (NEOCS, Jan 2026 edition): HOSPITALMAN (HN)

    [1] Rating chapter "SCOPE OF RATING"; cached text line 42989; NAVPERS 18068F Vol I, 2026-01 edition

    Supports: Tactical combat casualty care delivery, Medication and parenteral solution assistance, Environmental and occupational health support, Sick and injured patient transport, Medical Assistants (O*NET 31-9092.00), Orderlies (O*NET 31-1132.00)

  2. O*NET: Medical Assistants

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Medical Assistants (O*NET 31-9092.00)

  3. American Medical Technologists : Medical Assistant (RMA)

    [3] Check Eligibility and RMA Military Route

    Supports: Medical Assistants (O*NET 31-9092.00)

  4. O*NET: Orderlies

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Orderlies (O*NET 31-1132.00)

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Predecessor codes

Historical codes with documented links to HN. Each history page explains the change.

HAHospital Apprentice

Descriptions may be summarized for clarity. Verify all information with your branch career counselor or official military documentation before making career decisions.

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