Mental health assistant vs health aide

Differences between mental health assistant and health aide duties and responsibilities

Mental health assistant example responsibilities.

• Supervise and facilitate counseling interventions to psychiatric patients, and lead community therapeutic meetings.
• Encourage participation in attending program meetings that focuse on rehabilitation management and coping skills.
• Assist residents to function at their highest potential through formulation and implementation of rehabilitation plans.
• Supervise daily activities of patients, assist in crisis management, and facilitate admissions and discharges.
• Provide clear lines of responsibility and accountability within the BHT department; delegates appropriate authority for completion of assign responsibilities.
• Adhere to HIPPA regulations and to company privacy standards to protect patient confidentiality.

Health aide example responsibilities.

• Manage ventilator settings, suction tracheostomy, tube-feeding assistance.
• Perform care plan documentation to effectively implement personal care, dietary needs, and ADL requirements.
• Share health information with school staff and arrange training sessions for CPR certification and health care implementation.
• Care consists of medication administration, helping with ADL'S if necessary with the students with significant needs.
• Last school year, perform CPR on an adult volunteer and help resuscitate him and is doing just fine.
• Document all physical condition, behavioral and mental illness changes in patients as well as procedures perform and medication administer.
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