| 1. | Monitor patients' physical and emotional well-being and report unusual behavior or physical ailments to medical staff. |
| 2. | Provide nursing, psychiatric and personal care to mentally ill, emotionally disturbed or mentally retarded patients. |
| 3. | Observe and influence patients' behavior, communicating and interacting with them and teaching, counseling and befriending them. |
| 4. | Take and record measures of patients' physical condition, using devices such as thermometers and blood pressure gauges. |
| 5. | Encourage patients to develop work skills and to participate in social, recreational, and other therapeutic activities that enhance interpersonal skills and develop social relationships. |
| 6. | Collaborate with or assist doctors, psychologists, or rehabilitation therapists in working with mentally ill, emotionally disturbed, or developmentally disabled patients to treat, rehabilitate, and return patients to the community. |
| 7. | Develop and teach strategies to promote client wellness and independence. |
| 8. | Restrain violent, potentially violent, or suicidal patients by verbal or physical means as required. |
| 9. | Aid patients in performing tasks such as bathing and keeping beds, clothing and living areas clean. |
| 10. | Administer oral medications and hypodermic injections, following physician's prescriptions and hospital procedures. |
| 11. | Issue medications from dispensary and maintain records in accordance with specified procedures. |
| 12. | Interview new patients to complete admission forms, to assess their mental health status and to obtain their mental health and treatment history. |
| 13. | Lead prescribed individual or group therapy sessions as part of specific therapeutic procedures. |
| 14. | Contact patients' relatives to arrange family conferences. |