Care for mentally impaired or emotionally disturbed individuals, following physician instructions and hospital procedures. Monitor patients' physical and emotional well-being and report to medical staff. May participate in rehabilitation and treatment programs, help with personal hygiene, and administer oral medications and hypodermic injections.

Other names for Psychiatric Technicians: Behavioral Health Technician, Certified Nursing Assistant (CAN), Direct Care Worker (DCW), Health Care Technician, Human Service Technician, Human Services Support Specialist (HSSS), Mental Health Assistant (MHA), Mental Health Counselor, Mental Health Nurse (RN), Mental Health Technician (MHT), Mental Health Worker, Psychiatric Assistant, Psychiatric Technician, Rehabilitation Technician,

• Lead prescribed individual or group therapy sessions as part of specific therapeutic procedures.
• Contact patients' relatives to arrange family conferences.
• 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.
• Issue medications from dispensary and maintain records in accordance with specified procedures.
• Interview new patients to complete admission forms, to assess their mental health status and to obtain their mental health and treatment history.

• Resuscitation masks or accessories
• Blood collection syringes
• Blood pressure cuff kits
• Therapeutic heating or cooling pads or compresses or packs
• Crutches or crutch accessories
• Desktop computers
• Electronic medical thermometers
• Emergency or resuscitation carts
• Enema kits or accessories
• Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers
• Glucose monitors or meters
• Gurneys or scissor lifts
• Spill kits
• Therapeutic heating or cooling pads or compresses or packs
• Patient care beds or accessories for general use
• Medical syringes with needles
• Intermittent positive pressure breathing IPPB machines
• Lancets
• Mechanical stethoscopes or accessories
• Nasogastric tubes
• Nebulizers or accessories
• Notebook computers
• Pulse oximeter units
• Oxygen therapy delivery system products accessories or its supplies
• Oxygen therapy delivery system products accessories or its supplies
• Patient stabilization or fall prevention devices or accessories
• Personal computers
• Protective gloves
• Medical suction or vacuum appliances
• Medical staff isolation or surgical masks
• Tablet computers
• Orthopedic traction hardware or weights
• Tuberculin syringes
• Urinary catheterization kits or accessories
• Wheelchairs

Inventory management software

Office suite software

Medical software