Guadalupe Cardenas
Sacramento,CA
Summary
Licensed Psychiatric Technician with over 11 years of experience in the mental health field. Offering excellent counseling, rapport-building and communication skills with patients from diverse backgrounds. Recognized for having a strong work ethic and consistently exceeding performance standards.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Psychiatric Technician
Department Of State Hospitals - Coalinga
04.2021 - Current
- Promote and implement principles of wellness and recovery.
- Implement crisis intervention protocols when necessary, ensuring the safety of all patients and staff members involved.
- Shift lead.
- Provide behavioral and psychiatric nursing care.
- Motivate and assist patients with activities of daily living.
- Utilize tele-presence equipment.
- Provide training and orientation to new staff.
- Medication administration.
- Observe patients closely for signs of distress or changes in condition, promptly reporting concerns to supervising clinicians for appropriate intervention.
- Assist patients in understanding their conditions, leading to improved engagement with treatment.
- Attend shift change and treatment team meetings.
- Maintain patient records, documenting changes in patient condition.
- Escort patients to medical appointments and procedures.
- Assist in patient goal-setting and regularly monitored progress.
- Maintain strict confidentiality of patient information, adhering to HIPAA regulations and protecting individual privacy rights.
- Follow policies and procedures.
- Follow chain of command.
Psychiatric Technician
California Health Care Facility
04.2014 - 04.2021
- Provided behavioral and psychiatric nursing care.
- Implemented crisis intervention protocols when necessary, ensuring the safety of all patients and staff members involved.
- Utilized tele-presence equipment.
- Medication administration.
- Observed patients closely for signs of distress or changes in condition, promptly reporting concerns to supervising clinicians for appropriate intervention.
- Assisted patients in understanding their conditions, leading to improved engagement with treatment.
- Attended morning huddle and IDTT meetings.
- Maintained patient records, documenting changes in patient condition.
- Facilitated therapeutic groups
- Assisted in patient goal-setting and regularly monitored progress.
- Maintained strict confidentiality of patient information, adhering to HIPAA regulations and protecting individual privacy rights.
- Followed policies and procedures.
- Followed chain of command.
Education
Licensed - Psychiatric Technician
Coalinga College
300 W Cherry Ln, Coalinga, CA 9321008-2013
High School Diploma -
Corcoran High School
1100 Letts Ave, Corcoran, CA 9321206-2000
Skills
- Bi-lingual
- Multitasking Abilities
- Incident reporting
- Developmental disabilities support
- De-escalation techniques
- Critical thinking
- Decision-making
- Rapport building
- Crisis intervention
- Excellent communication
- Reliability
- Treatment management
- Behavior monitoring
- Suicide prevention
- Emergency response
- CPR certified
Timeline
Psychiatric Technician
Department Of State Hospitals - Coalinga
04.2021 - Current
Psychiatric Technician
California Health Care Facility
04.2014 - 04.2021
Licensed - Psychiatric Technician
Coalinga College
High School Diploma -
Corcoran High School