Psychiatric Aides

Healthcare Support Occupations · Job Skills & Competencies · SOC 31-1133 · 4 skills

Occupation context

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Listen and provide emotional support and encouragement to psychiatric patients.
Provide patients with cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities with routine physical, emotional, psychological, or rehabilitation care under the direction of nursing or medical staff.
Complete physical checks and monitor patients to detect unusual or harmful behavior and report observations to professional staff.

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Moshe-ship/mkhlab

Prayer time lookup via Aladhan API for any city worldwide

psychiatric-aide

wonsukchoi/domain-experts

Use when a task needs the judgment of a psychiatric aide on an inpatient psychiatric unit or state hospital ward — running ADL and rounds coverage for a patient assignment, deciding whether an observed behavior change is a "tell the nurse now" or "chart it at rounds" situation, choosing how to engage a withdrawn or agitated patient through activity rather than confrontation, or knowing what an aide can and can't do when a restraint response is called. US practice default. A reasoning aid, not medical advice.

neuroskill-protocols-music

NeuroSkill-com/skills

Music protocols — genre, BPM, artist suggestions, and listening techniques for mood regulation, focus, stress discharge, sleep, binaural beats, singing, and emotional release through music.

bytesagain/ai-skills

心理健康助手。情绪自查、呼吸练习、情绪日记、心理资源、压力管理、感恩练习。Mental health tool with mood check, breathing exercises, journaling, resources, stress management.

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Moshe-ship/mkhlab

Prayer time lookup via Aladhan API for any city worldwide

psychiatric-aide

wonsukchoi/domain-experts

Use when a task needs the judgment of a psychiatric aide on an inpatient psychiatric unit or state hospital ward — running ADL and rounds coverage for a patient assignment, deciding whether an observed behavior change is a "tell the nurse now" or "chart it at rounds" situation, choosing how to engage a withdrawn or agitated patient through activity rather than confrontation, or knowing what an aide can and can't do when a restraint response is called. US practice default. A reasoning aid, not medical advice.

neuroskill-protocols-music

NeuroSkill-com/skills

Music protocols — genre, BPM, artist suggestions, and listening techniques for mood regulation, focus, stress discharge, sleep, binaural beats, singing, and emotional release through music.

bytesagain/ai-skills

心理健康助手。情绪自查、呼吸练习、情绪日记、心理资源、压力管理、感恩练习。Mental health tool with mood check, breathing exercises, journaling, resources, stress management.

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