Psychiatric attendant vs mental health technician

Differences between psychiatric attendant and mental health technician duties and responsibilities

Psychiatric attendant example responsibilities.

• Prioritize and utilize therapeutic communication and CPI skills to diffuse and manage difficult situations.
• Provide direct care to mentally impair or emotionally disturb patients while monitoring and reporting unusual or harmful behaviors to senior staff.
• Train in CPR and therapeutic intervention.
• Follow procedures for restraints, drills and emergencies.
• Assist with activities of daily living (ADL'S).
• Assist with ADL's and daily security matters, help assign duties and enforce proper policies and procedures.
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Mental health technician example responsibilities.

• Prevent and manage aggressive behavior among patients and administer CPR in emergency intervention.
• Assist and organize workshops consisting of education, personal self-defense, CPR, and other techniques relating to mental health patients.
• Assist in taking care of mental health patients, doing rounds on the ward, helping patients with compassion and care.
• Apply immeasurable levels of compassion to preserve and safeguard the dignity of patients at all times.
• Observe patient behaviors, if patients become physically violent, CPI training restraint techniques may become necessary.
• Conduct patient rounds, assist with ADL care, offer therapeutic support, and provide written reports on assign patients
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