Mental health assistant vs health care assistant

Differences between mental health assistant and health care assistant 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 care assistant example responsibilities.

• Monitor / enforce OSHA standards and coordinate / lead daily, weekly, and monthly safety meetings to educate staff.
• Manage ventilator settings, suction tracheostomy, tube-feeding assistance.
• Facilitate physical therapy exercises, positional rotation, monitor medication compliance and effects, provide companionship, carry out ADL's.
• care professional, extremely competent, providing guidance and counseling for rehabilitation of mentally disturb patients.
• Process consults requests for electrophysiology, EKG and other services.
• Assist train staff in the event of cardiac arrest and actively participate in CPR.
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