Assist mentally impaired or emotionally disturbed patients, working under direction of nursing and medical staff.

• Mental-Retardation Aide
• Psychiatric Aide

• Accompany patients to and from wards for medical and dental treatments, shopping trips, and religious and recreational events.
• Aid patients in becoming accustomed to hospital routine.
• Clean and disinfect rooms and furnishings to maintain a safe and orderly environment.
• Interview patients upon admission and record information.
• Maintain patients' restrictions to assigned areas.
• Monitor patients in order to detect unusual behavior, and report observations to professional staff.
• Organize, supervise, and encourage patient participation in social, educational, and recreational activities.
• Participate in recreational activities with patients, including card games, sports, or television viewing.
• Perform nursing duties such as administering medications, measuring vital signs, collecting specimens and drawing blood samples.
• Provide mentally impaired or emotionally disturbed patients with routine physical, emotional, psychological or rehabilitation care under the direction of nursing and medical staff.
• Provide patients with assistance in bathing, dressing, and grooming, demonstrating these skills as necessary.
• Record and maintain records of patient condition and activity, including vital signs, eating habits, and behavior.
• Restrain or aid patients as necessary to prevent injury.
• Serve meals, and feed patients needing assistance or persuasion.
• Work as part of a team that may include psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses and social workers.

• administer enemas, irrigations, or douches to patients
• administer medications or treatments
• apply appropriate physical restraint
• assist patient with dressing, undressing, grooming, or bathing
• care for mentally ill patients
• clean rooms or work areas
• collect specimens from patients
• draw blood
• encourage patients to participate in activities
• entertain patients
• feed patients
• instruct patients in methods to improve functional activities
• lead recreational activities
• lift or transport ill or injured patients
• maintain dental or medical records
• observe patient condition
• participate in recreational activities
• take vital signs
• use first aid procedures
• use interviewing procedures
• weigh patients
• work with persons with mental disabilities or illnesses