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Behavioral Health Tech - Geriatric Psychiatric - PRN Department:
Geriatric Psychiatric Job Description:
General Description:
Under direct supervision of the Charge RN and Program Manager will utilize behavioral interventions, medical and technical skills to provide support to the patient care team.
Essential Responsibilities:
Responsibilities listed in this section are core to the position. Inability to perform these responsibilities with or without an accommodation may result in disqualification from the position.
- Assists in identifying patients’ problems, needs, and strengths.
- Assists in providing treatment plan to patient based on observations of patients’ behavior; and provide input into discharge planning.
- Participates in implementing patients’ treatment plan by monitoring patients’ progress; and communicates information regarding patients’ behavior to other members of the team.
- Detects and identifies unsafe environmental conditions and patient behaviors.
- Facilitates patients in therapeutic activities.
- Monitors patients in clinical and medical therapies.
- Monitors, engages in and promotes a safe patient milieu.
- Continuous monitoring of the therapeutic environment for safety concerns.
- Assists patients in carrying out activities of daily living; such as hygiene needs that can include showering and toileting
- Accompanies and transports patients.
- Takes/records blood pressures, temperatures, pulse and weighs patients.
- Performs blood glucose monitoring.
- Collects specimens as directed.
- Completes annual NCI and Behavioral Health specific training modules
- Takes emergency actions as required.
- Reports symptoms and significant changes in patient’s condition or behavior to RN.
- Assists with admission, discharge and transfer process.
- Transports patients to and from various treatment areas within the hospital when necessary; assists transporters in moving patients in and out of stretchers and wheelchairs.
- Keeps the patient’s room in clean and orderly condition; makes beds, replaces soiled linen.
- Assists in restocking rooms with supplies and equipment as directed.
- Duties may be performed for one patient or more than one patient.
- When assigned to one patient as a safety attendant (1:1 assignment), provides care, observes the patient and remains within 3 feet of the patient at all times with constant visual monitoring.
- Restores and maintains a safe and secure environment by implementing measures under NCI.
- Intervenes with NCI during patient episodes of aggressive and potentially violent behavior causing risk of harm to self or other patients on the unit.
General Responsibilities:
- Performs other duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications:
Education: None
Experience: Six (6) months experience in a healthcare setting OR completion of a related vocational health education course of at least 3 months OR completion of the first semester of courses in the major of an Associate or Bachelor’s Degree program in Psychology, nursing, or related field.
License(s)/Certification(s)/Registration(s) Required: Current Basic Life Support issued by the American Heart Association required upon hire. Nonviolent Crisis Intervention training required within 3 months of hire.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to work with others as a team to ensure quality patient care.
- Basic knowledge of computer systems and good interpersonal skills.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work effectively in stressful situations.
- Ability to respond appropriately to emergency situations. Knowledge of Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (NCI).
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