Train or instruct new employees on procedures to follow with psychiatric patients.

“Train or instruct new employees on procedures to follow with psychiatric patients.” is a core task performed by Psychiatric Technicians. Among the occupation's 16 rated tasks, workers place it 3rd by importance (#14 most important). About 94% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Train others on health or medical topics. in Training and Teaching Others

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Provide nursing, psychiatric, or personal care to mentally ill, emotionally disturbed, or mentally retarded patients. · importance 4.7
• Administer oral medications or hypodermic injections, following physician's prescriptions and hospital procedures. · importance 4.6
• Encourage patients to develop work skills and to participate in social, recreational, or other therapeutic activities that enhance interpersonal skills or develop social relationships. · importance 4.5
• Restrain violent, potentially violent, or suicidal patients by verbal or physical means as required. · importance 4.5
• Lead prescribed individual or group therapy sessions as part of specific therapeutic procedures. · importance 4.5
• Issue medications from dispensary and maintain records in accordance with specified procedures. · importance 4.4
• Monitor patients' physical and emotional well-being and report unusual behavior or physical ailments to medical staff. · importance 4.3
• Observe and influence patients' behavior, communicating and interacting with them and teaching, counseling, or befriending them. · importance 4.3
• Take and record measures of patients' physical condition, using devices such as thermometers or blood pressure gauges. · importance 4.3
• Aid patients in performing tasks, such as bathing or keeping beds, clothing, or living areas clean. · importance 4.2
• Collaborate with or assist doctors, psychologists, or rehabilitation therapists in working with mentally ill, emotionally disturbed, or developmentally disabled patients to treat, rehabilitate, and return patients to the community. · importance 4.2
• Interview new patients to complete admission forms, to assess their mental health status, or to obtain their mental health and treatment history. · importance 4.1
• Develop or teach strategies to promote client wellness and independence. · importance 4.0
• Escort patients to medical appointments. · importance 3.9

See all tasks on the Psychiatric Technicians page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Train or instruct new employees on procedures to follow with psychiatric patients.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-20575}
}