Mental Health Technician
US-NJ-Camden
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Req #: 69577
Type: Per Diem
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Responsibilities: * Assists the Registered Nurse in providing direct, indirect and non-patient care responsibilities. * Contributes to quality patient care by serving as a significant member of the multidisciplinary treatment team in providing therapeutic groups and activities, milieu counseling and management. * Performs patient care observation rounds, 1:1 observation, environmental rounds, vital signs, control logs, glucose checks, specimen collections, treatment planning, patient education, visitor & meal monitoring, belongings and body checks and documentation as needed. * Uses verbal de-escalation techniques to manage disruptive patient behaviors, in addition to limit-setting and physical restraint application as directed, and functions as a valuable member of the treatment team during a psychiatric code and Code Grey. * Performs clerical functions to support the clinical operations of the unit.
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