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AI for Psychiatric Technicians

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Care for individuals with mental or emotional conditions or disabilities, following the instructions of physicians or other health practitioners. Monitor patients' physical and emotional well-being and report to medical staff. May participate in rehabilitation and treatment programs, help with personal hygiene, and administer oral or injectable medications.

Psychiatric Technicians · O*NET 29-2053.00 · Job Zone 3 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

5 of 13tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

11 matched to the tools psychiatric technicians use. Showing 11.

  • Microsoft Outlook

    MCP server

    Microsoft Outlook is a web-based suite of webmail, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services.

    Microsoft Outlook

  • Microsoft Excel

    MCP server

    Microsoft's Excel is a spreadsheet application used by millions of users across the world. It is part of the Office ecosystem and is considered the industry standard for spreadsheets. Only files on OneDrive for Business (available with Office 365 and Sharepoint server) are su

    Microsoft Excel

  • Microsoft Word

    MCP server

  • Excel

    MCP server

  • Excel

    Skill

  • Microsoft 365 Excel

    App

    Make (make.com)

  • Microsoft Outlook

    App

  • PowerOffice

    App

    Make (make.com)

  • Spreadsheet

    Skill

  • Spreadsheetcom

    App

  • UnitusTI

    App

    EMR, Practice Management, behavioral, educational and mental health data collection software including curricula.

The tools this job actually uses

13 documented for this occupation. Showing 13, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Outlookhot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • ADL Data Systems OptimumClinicals Electronic Health Record
  • Allscripts Sunrise
  • Cerner ProFile
  • Epic EpicCare Inpatient Clinical System
  • GE Healthcare Centricity EMR
  • ICANotes
  • InfoLogix HealthTrax Engine
  • MEDITECH Behavioral Health Clinicals
  • Netsmart Technologies Avatar Clinical Workstation CWS

What this job involves

16 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 16.

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