How do they match: Psychiatric Aides

  • Health Service Worker
  • Behavioral Health Aide
  • Behavioral Health Assistant
  • Clinical Mental Health Counseling Intern
  • Direct Care Worker
  • Licensed Behavioral Health Clinician
  • Mental Health Worker
  • Mental Health Admin
  • Mental Health Administrator
  • Mental Health Aide
  • Mental Health Assistant
  • Mental Health Associate
  • Mental Health Counselor
  • Mental Health Orderly
  • Mental Health Program Assistant
  • Mental Health Technician
  • Qualified Medication Aide
  • Therapeutic Program Worker

  • Assist mentally impaired or emotionally disturbed patients, working under direction of nursing and medical staff. May assist with daily living activities, lead patients in educational and recreational activities, or accompany patients to and from examinations and treatments. May restrain violent patients. Includes psychiatric orderlies.

  • Work as part of a team that may include psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, or social workers.
  • Accompany patients to and from wards for medical or dental treatments, shopping trips, or religious or recreational events.
  • Complete administrative tasks, such as entering orders into computer, answering telephone calls, or maintaining medical or facility information.
  • Organize, supervise, or encourage patient participation in social, educational, or recreational activities.
  • Perform nursing duties, such as administering medications, measuring vital signs, collecting specimens, or drawing blood samples.
  • Provide patients with cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities with routine physical, emotional, psychological, or rehabilitation care under the direction of nursing or medical staff.

  • Give medications or immunizations.
  • Interview patients to gather medical information.
  • Maintain medical records.
  • Monitor patients to detect health problems.
  • Perform clerical work in medical settings.
  • Record vital statistics or other health information.