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Employee Press Psychiatric
Social Health Technicians Six-week training
helps 16 Local 420 members get a new title and pay boost at Bellevue Hospital
Sixteen
hospital employees and Local 420 members completed a six-week course to become
Psychiatric Social Health Technicians, a title that will bring them pay increases.
We
all worked very hard and our teachers did a great job, said Loretta Privot
on Feb. 4 at their graduation ceremony at Bellevue Hospital Center.
I
feel like a proud mother whenever I go to a graduation like this, said Local
420 President Carmen Charles. The union is the wind beneath your sails,
and we are here to push you forward.
Hospital administrators joined
Charles, Local 420 Bellevue Chapter Chair Wanda Johnson, Recording Secretary Mary
McCloud and DC 37 Education Fund Program Coordinator Stephen Johnson in congratulating
the proud graduates.
Today is the beginning of a new and exciting
phase in your career, said Nursing Director Susan Amaut.
The new
graduates will work in the Psychiatric Dept. Bellevues largest
with a volatile population diagnosed with illnesses such as manic depression
and schizophrenia. They will serve as the patients liaison with doctors
and monitor their progress.
After getting their certificates, the graduates
were joined by their families, management and union officials for a luncheon.
The
16 were the first of three groups selected to become Psych Techs.
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