Psychiatric technician caring for individuals with mental or emotional conditions, monitoring well-being, administering medications, and assisting with personal hygiene in a healthcare environment
Experience
Psychiatric Technician
Where you worked
Month Year to Month Year
Provided nursing, psychiatric, or personal care to patients with cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities
Monitored patients' physical and emotional well-being and reported unusual behavior or physical ailments to medical staff
Administered oral medications or hypodermic injections, following physician's prescriptions and hospital procedures
Took and recorded measures of patients' physical condition, using devices such as thermometers or blood pressure gauges
Led prescribed individual or group therapy sessions as part of specific therapeutic procedures
Collaborated with doctors, psychologists, or rehabilitation therapists to treat and rehabilitate patients
Aided patients in performing tasks, such as bathing or keeping beds, clothing, or living areas clean
Skills
Working With People
Treating patients with therapy, Caring for patients with mental illnesses, Informing about patient conditions, Administering non-intravenous medications
Core Skills
Collecting medical information, Examining patients
Hands-On Work
Moving patients, Operating medical instruments
Technical Skills
Maintaining medical facility records, Recording medical histories