California Code of Regulations
Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations
Division 25 - Board of Vocational Nurse and Psychiatric Technician Examiners of the State of California
Chapter 2 - Psychiatric Technicians
Article 5 - Schools for Preparation of Psychiatric Technicians
Section 2586 - Curriculum Hours
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) The course for preparation of psychiatric technicians shall consist of not less than 1530 hours or 50 semester units. The course may be offered on a full or part time basis. One hour of instruction for purposes of computing the total hours of instruction or for calculating semester units as specified in this section shall consist of not less than 50 minutes of actual class time.
(b) The course shall consist of not less than 576 hours of theory and 954 hours of supervised clinical experience. The hours of theory and clinical experience shall include a minimum of each of the following:
| Theory Hours | Clinical Hours | |
| Pharmacology | 54 | |
| Nursing science | 126 | 270 |
| Mental disorders | 108 | 270 |
| Developmental disabilities | 108 | 270 |
(c) The school week shall not exceed 40 hours per week.
(d) School days that consist of class attendance only or a combination of class attendance and clinical experience shall not exceed eight hours in length.
(e) Students may be assigned to shifts of up to and including 12-hour length for clinical experience, only.
(f) Students may be granted holidays and vacation days equivalent to those granted by community colleges.
1. Amendment
of subsections (b) and (c) filed 12-17-70; effective thirtieth day thereafter
(Register 70, No. 51).
2. Amendment of subsection (c) filed 7-21-72;
effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 72, No. 30).
3.
Amendment of subsection (b) filed 4-22-77; effective thirtieth day thereafter
(Register 77, No. 17).
4. Amendment filed 11-16-83; effective upon
filing pursuant to Government Code Section
11346.2(d)
(Register 83, No. 47).
5. Amendment of subsections (a) and (b) filed
4-8-86; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 86, No. 15).
6.
Amendment of subsection (c), repealer of subsection (d), new subsections
(d)-(f) and amendment of NOTE filed 12-29-2004; operative 1-28-2005 (Register
2004, No. 53).
Note: Authority cited: Section 4504, Business and Professions Code. Reference: Sections 4531 and 4532, Business and Professions Code.
