How do they match: Psychiatric Aides

  • Developmental Diabetes Secure Care Treatment Aide
  • Direct Care Worker
  • Patient Care Assistant
  • Resident Care Tech
  • Resident Care Technician
  • Residential Care Tech
  • Residential Care Technician

  • 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.

  • Organize, supervise, or encourage patient participation in social, educational, or recreational activities.
  • Provide patients with cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities with routine physical, emotional, psychological, or rehabilitation care under the direction of nursing or medical staff.

  • Care for patients with mental illnesses.
  • Confer with other professionals to plan patient care.