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Psychiatric Technicians
ID
work_healthcare_practitioners/psychiatric_technicians
Type
TASK
Children
16
Child Nodes (16)
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Provide nursing, psychiatric, or personal care to patients with cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities.
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Encourage patients to develop work skills and to participate in social, recreational, or other therapeutic activities that enhance interpersonal skills or develop social relationships.
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Restrain violent, potentially violent, or suicidal patients by verbal or physical means as required.
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Lead prescribed individual or group therapy sessions as part of specific therapeutic procedures.
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Monitor patients' physical and emotional well-being and report unusual behavior or physical ailments to medical staff.
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Take and record measures of patients' physical condition, using devices such as thermometers or blood pressure gauges.
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Observe and influence patients' behavior, communicating and interacting with them and teaching, counseling, or befriending them.
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Aid patients in performing tasks, such as bathing or keeping beds, clothing, or living areas clean.
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Collaborate with or assist doctors, psychologists, or rehabilitation therapists in working with patients with cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities to treat, rehabilitate, and return patients to the community.
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Develop or teach strategies to promote client wellness and independence.
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Train or instruct new employees on procedures to follow with psychiatric patients.
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Escort patients to medical appointments.
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Administer oral medications or hypodermic injections, following physician's prescriptions and hospital procedures.
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Issue medications from dispensary and maintain records in accordance with specified procedures.
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Interview new patients to complete admission forms, to assess their mental health status, or to obtain their mental health and treatment history.
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