Certified Medication Aide

About the role

The Certified Medication Aide assists with the administration of medications under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse or Licensed Vocational Nurse. They also assist licensed nursing staff by performing routine nursing duties and activities of daily living.

Responsibilities

• Assists residents with dressing, grooming, eating, bathing, positioning, turning, toileting, and exercising.
• Gives treatments, performs tests, carries-out procedures, and collects specimens as instructed.
• Reports and records observations and results of treatments, tests, procedures and specimens when indicated.
• Transfers, transports and escorts residents as needed.
• Answers signal lights promptly.
• Performs any other duty in which the appropriate training level has been achieved.
• Make resident rounds with off-going shift as well as hourly, ensuring residents are clean, comfortable, and ascertaining overall condition.
• Lift, turn, and transfer residents when needed, utilizing proper safety equipment.
• Changes bed linens, makes beds and keeps rooms clean and orderly.
• Performs specific work duties and responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.
• Safely prepares, administers, and charts oral, topical, and suppository drugs.
• Discards medication refused or otherwise not given and records on medication administration record.
• Reports medication errors or reactions to medications immediately to the charge nurse, who, in turn, reports to the resident’s attending physician and completes the necessary documentation.
• Performs accurate pulse and blood pressure and recognizes their significance in drug therapy.
• Signs and has access to the controlled schedule drug cabinet.
• Administers medication only upon a written physician’s order.
• Administers PRN medication only under the following directives:
• FOR NON-LEGEND (OTC) DRUGS - May be administered without prior permission.
• FOR LEGEND PRN DRUGS - CMA informs the charge nurse who first makes a bedside assessment; documents that assessment on the clinical record; giving permission of the CMA to administer medication; or charge nurse administers same. The CMA charts PRN medication on the medication administration record and in the nursing notes.

Requirements

• Holds a current Medication Aide AND Nursing Assistant Certification in Texas.
• Successfully completed competency evaluation requirements under state guidelines.
• High school Graduate or equivalent (Preferred).

Qualifications

• Comprehensive health insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Accident insurance.
• Short-term disability insurance.
• Supplemental life insurance.
• Personal life insurance.
• Paid time off starting at 128 hours your first year.
• Tuition reimbursement & scholarship opportunities.
• Access to a 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan with a Carillon match.
• Employee Referral Program resulting in $300 for each successful employment referral.
• Offering Everyday Pay!

Skills

• Comprehensive knowledge of medications and their administration.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to lift and move residents safely and efficiently.
• Attention to detail and ability to follow protocols accurately.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Accident insurance.
• Short-term disability insurance.
• Supplemental life insurance.
• Personal life insurance.
• Paid time off starting at 128 hours your first year.
• Tuition reimbursement & scholarship opportunities.
• Access to a 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan with a Carillon match.
• Employee Referral Program resulting in $300 for each successful employment referral.
• Offering Everyday Pay!

Pay

• $15-$17.50 per hour.

Schedule

• 11 hour shifts (Days 7a- 7p) / (Nights 7p-7a).
• Bi-weekly rotation.
• Week 1: Mon, Tues, Fri, Sat.
• Week 2: Sun, Wed, Thurs.