Certified Medicaiton Assistant - Full Time Day
Sanford Health · Canistota, SD · 1 mo ago
On-siteFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually we have Job Summary, Qualifications, Benefits. Also we have Salary Range and Sign on Bonus. Pay Info: $10,000 Sign on Bonus! So we have pay info: salary range and sign on bonus. Should we create a Pay section? The instruction: include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text. Pay: we have salary range and sign on bonus, that's specific. So we can include a Pay section with for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We should choose appropriate headings. We have Job Summary (description of role). Could be About the role. Responsibilities could be derived from job summary duties. But we have a lot of duties in the job summary. Could split: About the role (brief overview) and Responsibilities (list). However we must not create thin sections with filler. We have substantive content for responsibilities (list of duties). So we can have Responsibilities section with
Pay
and then maybe acontaining the salary range and sign on bonus. Also Schedule: we have Shift: Day, Job Schedule: Full time, Weekly Hours: 40.00. That's schedule info. So we can include a Schedule section. Benefits: we have description. So Benefits section. We need headings: About the role? The job summary could be under About the role or Responsibilities? The instruction: use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We should choose appropriate headings. We have Job Summary (description of role). Could be About the role. Responsibilities could be derived from job summary duties. But we have a lot of duties in the job summary. Could split: About the role (brief overview) and Responsibilities (list). However we must not create thin sections with filler. We have substantive content for responsibilities (list of duties). So we can have Responsibilities section with - . Also Qualifications section. Also Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We must not repeat the job title as heading. Also not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate like EEO, accommodation, drug free workplace, etc. Also remove navigation, cookie, legal, etc. Also remove application instructions (like call, email). Also remove Req Number, Job Function, Featured.
We must preserve all substantive information: location, facility, address, shift, schedule, weekly hours, salary range, sign on bonus, job summary duties, qualifications, benefits description.
We need to format as HTML fragment only.
Let's extract:
Facility: GSS SD Canistota Ctr
Location: Canistota, SD
Address: 700 Main St, Canistota, SD 57012, USA
Shift: Day
Job Schedule: Full time
Weekly Hours: 40.00
Salary Range: $19.50 - $28.00
Pay Info: $10,000 Sign on Bonus!
Job Summary: The Medication Assistant (MA) serves as caregiver who provides resident-centered nursing care and daily living assistance to assigned residents under the supervision of a charge nurse. Knowledge of and delivers age-appropriate care related to the physical and psychological needs of the resident as per plan of care. Provides assistance with basic health care needs including daily living activities that may include, but are not limited to, bathing, toileting, grooming, dressing/undressing, obtaining and recording vital signs, and providing psycho-social support and other personal care to assigned resident. May assist the resident in transferring, re-positioning, and walking using correct and appropriate transfer techniques and equipment and provides range of motion and passive exercises. Completes tasks related to food preparation and dining, while creating a positive dining experience for the resident. May assist residents with meals and snacks; provide water and supplements as appropriate. Administers prescribed medications as delegated by a licensed nurse and within their scope of practice as defined by state regulations. Documents the outcomes related to resident care, medication administration, behavior, activity, and dietary. Communicates changing condition, medication follow-up and care related concerns/responses to the charge nurse. Collects non-invasive body fluid specimens and gathers vital signs. Provides housekeeping and laundry services to assist residents with keeping living areas clean and operational. Provides assistance and documentation with wellness and recreational programs and encourages residents to participate. May participate in departmental/organization committees and task forces as needed.
Qualifications:
- High school graduate or general equivalency diploma (GED) preferred, but not required.
- Minimum age of 18 preferred.
- Prior clinical or nursing assistant experience in long-term care preferred.
- Satisfactorily completes yearly department specific competency testing and maintains a record of continuing education credits for each year.
- A minimum of 12 hours continuing education are required annually based on state requirements.
- Maintains all department specific required certifications.
- When applicable, may need a valid driver's license and auto insurance.
- Iowa: Require Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certification with the State Board of Nursing. CNA certification must be maintained with the State Board of Nursing. Successful completion of a state-approved Certified Medication Aide/Assistant course once CNA certification is obtained.
- Minnesota: Must have nursing assistant certification, have completed the 75-hour course and be registered with the Minnesota Nursing Assistant Registry. Successful completion of a state-approved Trained Medication Assistant course.
- North Dakota: Require Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certification with the State Board of Nursing. CNA certification must be maintained with the State Board of Nursing. Successful completion of a state-approved Certified Medication Aide/Assistant course once CNA certification is obtained. If working in an Assisted Living or Basic Care facility, Medication Assistant I certification required. If working in a skilled nursing facility, Medication Assistant II certification is required.
- South Dakota: Must successfully complete the state approved Certified Medication Aide (CMA) course. CMA certification must be maintained with the State Board of Nursing. For all Good Samaritan and Sanford nursing facilities: Must have the state required certified/trained medication aide certification (CMA or TMA). Active certified nursing assistant registration in state of practice, or ability to obtain within 120 days, is required.
Benefits:
Good Samaritan offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, work/life balance benefits, and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance. For more information about Total Rewards, visit https://sanfordcareers.com/benefits .
We should keep the link? It's substantive. Probably okay.
Now we need to decide sections:
- About the role: maybe a short paragraph summarizing the role (could be the first sentence of job summary). But we already have Responsibilities with detailed list. Could combine About the role as a brief overview then Responsibilities list. However we must not create thin sections. About the role could be a paragraph: "The Medication Assistant (MA) serves as caregiver who provides resident-centered nursing care and daily living assistance to assigned residents under the supervision of a charge nurse." That's substantive enough.
- Responsibilities: list of duties from job summary after that first sentence. We'll extract the rest as bullet list.
- Qualifications: list.
- Benefits: paragraph.
- Pay: paragraph with salary range and sign on bonus.
- Schedule: paragraph with shift, job schedule, weekly hours.
We also have location info. Could be part of About the role or a separate section? Not in the list of headings but we could include location in About the role paragraph. Or we could create a section "Location" but not in allowed headings. Better to incorporate location into About the role or maybe a brief paragraph after About the role? The instruction only gave examples of headings but didn't forbid other headings? It says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It implies we should use those headings when appropriate. It didn't say we cannot use other headings, but to follow the examples. Safer to stick to those headings. So we can include location info within About the role paragraph.
Thus About the role paragraph: include facility, location, address, shift? Actually shift and schedule could go to Schedule section. So About the role: facility, location, address, brief role description.
Let's craft:
About the role
Facility: GSS SD Canistota Ctr. Location: Canistota, SD. Address: 700 Main St, Canistota, SD 57012, USA. The Medication Assistant (MA) serves as caregiver who provides resident-centered nursing care and daily living assistance to assigned residents under the supervision of a charge nurse.
Then Responsibilities: list of duties (excluding the first sentence we used). We'll need to capture all duties after that sentence.
From job summary after first sentence: "Knowledge of and delivers age-appropriate care related to the physical and psychological needs of the resident as per plan of care. Provides assistance with basic health care needs including daily living activities that may include, but are not limited to, bathing, toileting, grooming, dressing/undressing, obtaining and recording vital signs, and providing psycho-social support and other personal care to assigned resident. May assist the resident in transferring, re-positioning, and walking using correct and appropriate transfer techniques and equipment and provides range of motion and passive exercises. Completes tasks related to food preparation and dining, while creating a positive dining experience for the resident. May assist residents with meals and snacks; provide water and supplements as appropriate. Administers prescribed medications as delegated by a licensed nurse and within their scope of practice as defined by state regulations. Documents the outcomes related to resident care, medication administration, behavior, activity, and dietary. Communicates changing condition, medication follow-up and care related concerns/responses to the charge nurse. Collects non-invasive body fluid specimens and gathers vital signs. Provides housekeeping and laundry services to assist residents with keeping living areas clean and operational. Provides assistance and documentation with wellness and recreational programs and encourages residents to participate. May participate in departmental/organization committees and task forces as needed."
We'll turn each sentence into bullet items, but we can combine related items. Better to break into logical bullets:
- Knowledge of and delivers age-appropriate care related to the physical and psychological needs of the resident as per plan of care.
- Provides assistance with basic health care needs including daily living activities such as bathing, toileting, grooming, dressing/undressing, obtaining and recording vital signs, and providing psycho-social support and other personal care.
- May assist the resident in transferring, re-positioning, and walking using correct and appropriate transfer techniques and equipment; provides range of motion and passive exercises.
- Completes tasks related to food preparation and dining, creating a positive dining experience for the resident; may assist residents with meals and snacks; provide water and supplements as appropriate.
- Administers prescribed medications as delegated by a licensed nurse and within scope of practice per state regulations.
- Documents outcomes related to resident care, medication administration, behavior, activity, and dietary.
- Communicates changing condition, medication follow-up, and care-related concerns/responses to the charge nurse.
- Collects non-invasive body fluid specimens and gathers vital signs.
- Provides housekeeping and laundry services to assist residents with keeping living areas clean and operational.
- Provides assistance and documentation with wellness and recreational programs and encourages resident participation.
- May participate in departmental or organization committees and task forces as needed.
That seems good.
Qualifications: list each bullet.
We need to keep the state-specific details. Could break into bullets for each state but that may be many. We'll keep as bullet list with sub-bullets? HTML only allows - . We can embed line breaks inside
- . We'll include the state-specific details as part of the li text.
Let's craft qualifications bullets:
- High school graduate or general equivalency diploma (GED) preferred, but not required.
- Minimum age of 18 preferred.
- Prior clinical or nursing assistant experience in long-term care preferred.
- Satisfactorily completes yearly department specific competency testing and maintains a record of continuing education credits for each year.
- A minimum of 12 hours continuing education are required annually based on state requirements.
- Maintains all department specific required certifications.
- When applicable, may need a
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It implies we should use those headings when appropriate. It didn't say we cannot use other headings, but to follow the examples. Safer to stick to those headings. So we can include location info within About the role paragraph.
Thus About the role paragraph: include facility, location, address, shift? Actually shift and schedule could go to Schedule section. So About the role: facility, location, address, brief role description.
Let's craft:
About the role
Facility: GSS SD Canistota Ctr. Location: Canistota, SD. Address: 700 Main St, Canistota, SD 57012, USA. The Medication Assistant (MA) serves as caregiver who provides resident-centered nursing care and daily living assistance to assigned residents under the supervision of a charge nurse.
Then Responsibilities: list of duties (excluding the first sentence we used). We'll need to capture all duties after that sentence. From job summary after first sentence: "Knowledge of and delivers age-appropriate care related to the physical and psychological needs of the resident as per plan of care. Provides assistance with basic health care needs including daily living activities that may include, but are not limited to, bathing, toileting, grooming, dressing/undressing, obtaining and recording vital signs, and providing psycho-social support and other personal care to assigned resident. May assist the resident in transferring, re-positioning, and walking using correct and appropriate transfer techniques and equipment and provides range of motion and passive exercises. Completes tasks related to food preparation and dining, while creating a positive dining experience for the resident. May assist residents with meals and snacks; provide water and supplements as appropriate. Administers prescribed medications as delegated by a licensed nurse and within their scope of practice as defined by state regulations. Documents the outcomes related to resident care, medication administration, behavior, activity, and dietary. Communicates changing condition, medication follow-up and care related concerns/responses to the charge nurse. Collects non-invasive body fluid specimens and gathers vital signs. Provides housekeeping and laundry services to assist residents with keeping living areas clean and operational. Provides assistance and documentation with wellness and recreational programs and encourages residents to participate. May participate in departmental/organization committees and task forces as needed." We'll turn each sentence into bullet items, but we can combine related items. Better to break into logical bullets: - Knowledge of and delivers age-appropriate care related to the physical and psychological needs of the resident as per plan of care. - Provides assistance with basic health care needs including daily living activities such as bathing, toileting, grooming, dressing/undressing, obtaining and recording vital signs, and providing psycho-social support and other personal care. - May assist the resident in transferring, re-positioning, and walking using correct and appropriate transfer techniques and equipment; provides range of motion and passive exercises. - Completes tasks related to food preparation and dining, creating a positive dining experience for the resident; may assist residents with meals and snacks; provide water and supplements as appropriate. - Administers prescribed medications as delegated by a licensed nurse and within scope of practice per state regulations. - Documents outcomes related to resident care, medication administration, behavior, activity, and dietary. - Communicates changing condition, medication follow-up, and care-related concerns/responses to the charge nurse. - Collects non-invasive body fluid specimens and gathers vital signs. - Provides housekeeping and laundry services to assist residents with keeping living areas clean and operational. - Provides assistance and documentation with wellness and recreational programs and encourages resident participation. - May participate in departmental or organization committees and task forces as needed. That seems good. Qualifications: list each bullet. We need to keep the state-specific details. Could break into bullets for each state but that may be many. We'll keep as bullet list with sub-bullets? HTML only allows- . We can embed line breaks inside
- . We'll include the state-specific details as part of the li text. Let's craft qualifications bullets: - High school graduate or general equivalency diploma (GED) preferred, but not required. - Minimum age of 18 preferred. - Prior clinical or nursing assistant experience in long-term care preferred. - Satisfactorily completes yearly department specific competency testing and maintains a record of continuing education credits for each year. - A minimum of 12 hours continuing education are required annually based on state requirements. - Maintains all department specific required certifications. - When applicable, may need a