PSYCHIATRIC TECHNICIANS: Provide nursing care to mentally ill, emotionally disturbed, or mentally retarded patients. Participate in rehabilitation and treatment programs. Help with personal hygiene. Administer oral medications and hypodermic injections, following physician's prescriptions and hospital procedures. Monitor patient's physical and emotional well-being and report to medical staff.

• Analyze patient activity
• Apply appropriate physical restraint
• Apply human developmental disease theory
• Apply human disabilities theory
• Apply infectious materials procedures
• Apply institutional care procedures
• Apply patient care procedures
• Apply patient observation procedures
• Apply sanitation practices to health care
• Inventory medical supplies and instruments
• Lift/transport ill/injured persons
• Manage medical records
• Refer patients to community resources
• Supervise adult care residents
• Take vital signs
• Understand & use medical terminology
• Use isolation procedures for infected laundry
• Use personal/vital care procedures in institutional living facility
• Use principles of gerontology
• Work with persons with mental disabilities/illnesses