Mental Health Workers Job Responsibilities and Job Duties | Psychiatric Hospital
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- As a Mental Health Worker, you help care for physically and mentally ill individuals confined to hospitals or mental health settings. Mental Health Worker works under the direct supervision of an RN, LVN and/or LPT. MHW also know as a Mental Health Technician in some hospital and mental health facilities. The Mental Health Worker job requires you to observe the patients and report any physical or behavioral changes to the nurse. Mental Health Worker also assists with programs for patients and provides basic nursing care.
In this video, I will quickly go over the job responsibilities and job duties of a Mental Health Worker / Mental Health Technician.
Some of the main job duties of MHW are:
- Rounds to be completed every 15 minutes (Q15)
- 1:1 observation / 1:1 to ER
- MAB/CPI: Manage behavior & intervention and prevention
- Group Activity / Workshop
- Daily Intakes for Food/Liquid
- Ensuring safety for all patients
- Interact and talk with patients with professional boundaries
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For those interested in advancing in the career beyond the role of mental health workers, numerous career paths are available:
Mental Health Nurse/NP
Physician Assistants
Social Workers
Mental Health counselors
Case Managers
Therapists / Psychiatrist
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Thank you for this video! It was very helpful and you seem like such a sincere, respectful and professional mental health worker. Your patients must have been lucky to have you!
What are your thoughts on MHW's responsibilities?
I feel like mental health tech need to be paid more for the job duties they do. I am looking into becoming a peer support specialist which you support a person with mental health issues or drug and alcohol addiction. But to be a peer support specialist you need to be diagnosed with mental health diagnosis or alcohol addiction diagnosis in order to be peer support specialist. Please do a video on this.
It is difficult to get more pay when it comes to mental health work bcuz of low funding from the government. Private places might pay more bcuz they charge more, but public/state-funded facilities depend on funding for their staff salary. I will try in the future, been busy. However, I can only talk about the basics of it bcuz I only hear about it from my co-workers, not first-hand experience. It makes sense for peer support to have the diagnosis for understanding and connection/relatability. For example, I had a bad depression in college & have to see a school therapist & mentor who deal with it in the past. My healthcare friends might know something about it, but they don't know the headspace that I am in since they don't have first-hand exp.
it sounds like you were very good at your job. what are you doing now? I hope you went into psychology because the field needs people who can communicate effectively and understand the nuances of various situations
I got a master of health administration (MHA) during the lockdown (gotta be productive). Now, I'm working as a healthcare auditor to learn more.
I start training as Mental Health Technician in a few weeks. I am very nervous.