Use your expertise, compassion, and kindness to transform the patient experience. When you join UCLA Health as a nurse, you’ll deliver leading-edge care as you build an exceptional career with a health system that’s consistently ranked among the best in the country.
The Licensed Psychiatric Technician, under direct supervision of a Registered Nurse, provides nursing care to psychiatric patients by implementing and evaluating the established plan of care; carrying out assigned tasks; working collaboratively with members of the nursing and multidisciplinary team.
Salary: $39.40 – $39.40 Hourly
BLS – Required
Psychiatric Technician Licensure – Required
At least 6 months experience in a psychiatric inpatient setting or equivalent – Required
The Licensed Psychiatric Technician/Senior Licensed Psychiatric Technician must have a working knowledge of:
- Group dynamics
- Psychological functioning and deviations from normal
- Growth and development throughout the life span
- Techniques of therapeutic communication
- Drug administration
- Management of assaultive behavior
- CPR
- Joint Commission
- HIPAA
- Read documents written in standard English text. Write legibly in grammatically correct English
- Speak to patients/families and colleagues using appropriate English grammar
- Hear ordinary conversation and other sounds in both face-to-face situations as well as in groups
- Use the problem solving process
- Collaborate with members of the multidisciplinary team
- Use techniques of therapeutic communication
- Observe and report patients’ behavior
- Establish written goals and objectives for each activity
- Plan and implement individual, large and small group programs/activities
- Evaluate patients’ strength and problem areas
- Modify and/or adapt group techniques to improve individual and/or group treatment outcomes
- Physically participate in patient activities. Physically apply holds, restraints and protective devices
- Demonstrated ability to provide individual and group activities to psychiatric patients on an acute psychiatric inpatient
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