Certified Medication Aide

Healthcare Center is Hiring for a Certified Medication Aide!

Status: Full-Time

Salary: $18.00 - $20.00/hr.

GENERAL SUMMARY:

The Certified Medicine Aide assists with the administration of medications under the direct supervision of a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse. Assists licensed nursing staff by performing routine nursing duties and activities of daily living.

PRINCIPLE DUTIES:

• Assists residents with dressing, grooming, eating, bathing, positioning, turning, toileting and exercising.

• Gives treatments, perform tests, carry-out procedures and collect 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.

• Changes bed linens, makes beds and keeps rooms clean and orderly.

Certified Medication Aide Duties:

• Safely prepares, administers, and charts oral, topical, and suppository drugs. The medication aide who prepares the medicine administers same.

• Checks and prepares each dose immediately preceding administration.

• Follows administration protocol:

• Checks medication with transcribed or original order.

• Checks all information on label or package for accuracy and clarity.

• Clearly identifies the resident with proper medication.

• Considers the following when administering a medication.

• General use of the medication

• Therapeutic action

• Usual dosage

• Factors modifying dosage and effects.

• Precautions and contraindications

• Antidote, if known

• Route and frequency of administration

• Signs of deterioration of the medication

• Checks with the charge nurse if there are any questions regarding any medication.

• Records administration of the medication on resident's medication administration record. 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.

• 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. Signs and has access to the controlled schedule drug cabinet.

• Administers medication only upon a written physician's order.

Limitations:

• Transcribing physician's original orders to medicine charts or Kardex's.

• Administering any parental medications.

• Administering any substances by nasogastric or gastrostomy tubes

Other Duties:

• Maintains safe and sanitary workstations and equipment.

• Encourages independence, attendance at activities, restorative programs and rehabilitation.

• Attends in-service training and education session, as assigned.

• Performs specific work duties and responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.