What does a Psychiatric technician do?

These are the tasks of a psychiatric technician

• Monitor patients' physical and emotional well-being and report unusual behavior or physical ailments to medical staff.
• Provide nursing, psychiatric and personal care to mentally ill, emotionally disturbed or mentally retarded patients.
• Observe and influence patients' behavior, communicating and interacting with them and teaching, counseling and befriending them.
• Take and record measures of patients' physical condition, using devices such as thermometers and blood pressure gauges.
• Encourage patients to develop work skills and to participate in social, recreational, and other therapeutic activities that enhance interpersonal skills and develop social relationships.
• Collaborate with or assist doctors, psychologists, or rehabilitation therapists in working with mentally ill, emotionally disturbed, or developmentally disabled patients to treat, rehabilitate, and return patients to the community.
• Develop and teach strategies to promote client wellness and independence.
• Restrain violent, potentially violent, or suicidal patients by verbal or physical means as required.
• Aid patients in performing tasks such as bathing and keeping beds, clothing and living areas clean.
• Administer oral medications and hypodermic injections, following physician's prescriptions and hospital procedures

These are the tasks of a psychiatric technician

• Monitor patients' physical and emotional well-being and report unusual behavior or physical ailments to medical staff.
• Provide nursing, psychiatric and personal care to mentally ill, emotionally disturbed or mentally retarded patients.
• Observe and influence patients' behavior, communicating and interacting with them and teaching, counseling and befriending them.
• Take and record measures of patients' physical condition, using devices such as thermometers and blood pressure gauges.
• Encourage patients to develop work skills and to participate in social, recreational, and other therapeutic activities that enhance interpersonal skills and develop social relationships.
• Collaborate with or assist doctors, psychologists, or rehabilitation therapists in working with mentally ill, emotionally disturbed, or developmentally disabled patients to treat, rehabilitate, and return patients to the community.
• Develop and teach strategies to promote client wellness and independence.
• Restrain violent, potentially violent, or suicidal patients by verbal or physical means as required.
• Aid patients in performing tasks such as bathing and keeping beds, clothing and living areas clean.
• Administer oral medications and hypodermic injections, following physician's prescriptions and hospital procedures