Psychiatric Aides

• 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.

Task data excerpted from the O*NET® 29.1 Database (USDOL/ETA) and used under CC BY 4.0.