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Certified Medication Aide

Regency Integrated Health Services
Bastrop, USA
Full-time
Junior · 1+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 4 days ago

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Qualifications

  • Educational/Training Requirements
  • A high school diploma or equivalent is required
  • Complete a state-approved 140-hour Certified Medication Aide training program
  • At least 1 year of experience working in a skilled nursing location as a CNA or CMA
  • Licensing Requirements
  • Must hold a valid Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) license
  • Most hold a valid Certified Medication Aide license
  • Physical Job Requirements:
  • Lifting 1–50 lbs - Frequent Lifting 50+ lbs - Occasionally
  • Carrying 1–25 lbs - Frequent Carrying 25–50+ lbs - Occasionally
  • Pushing / Pulling 1–50 lbs - Frequent Pushing / Pulling 50+ lbs - Occasionally
  • Sliding / Transferring 1–50 lbs - Frequent Sliding /Transferring 50+ lbs - Occasionally
  • Standing / Walking - Frequently Sitting / Balancing / Crouching / Crawling - Rarely Speaking / Hearing / Seeing - Frequently Stooping / Kneeling - Occasionally Reaching - Occasionally Turning / Twisting / Leaning - Occasionally
  • Driving - Rarely
  • Lifting 1–50 lbs - Frequent
  • Lifting 50+ lbs - Occasionally
  • Carrying 1–25 lbs - Frequent
  • Carrying 25–50+ lbs - Occasionally
  • Pushing / Pulling 1–50 lbs - Frequent
  • Pushing / Pulling 50+ lbs - Occasionally
  • Sliding / Transferring 1–50 lbs - Frequent
  • Sliding /Transferring 50+ lbs - Occasionally
  • Standing / Walking - Frequently
  • Sitting / Balancing / Crouching / Crawling - Rarely
  • Speaking / Hearing / Seeing - Frequently
  • Stooping / Kneeling - Occasionally
  • Reaching - Occasionally
  • Turning / Twisting / Leaning - Occasionally

Responsibilities

  • Administer prescribed medications and treatments as defined by state regulations in accordance with company policy and procedure.
  • Observe and report to the facility's charge nurse reactions and side effects to medication shown by a resident
  • Take and record vital signs prior to the administration of medication which could affect or change the vital signs
  • Reports to charge nurse and documents reasons prescribed drugs are not administered.
  • Administer regularly prescribed medication which the permit holder has been trained to administer only after personally preparing (setting up) the medication to be administered
  • The medication aide will document the administered medication in the resident's medication administration record
  • Administer oxygen per nasal canal or a non-sealing face mask only in an emergency; immediately after the emergency, the medication aide shall verbally notify the licensed nurse on duty or on call and appropriately document the action and notification.
  • Apply specifically ordered ophthalmic, OTIC, nasal, and vaginal medication
  • Be able to accurately follow all principles of good medication administration
  • Assist in customary daily requirements and tasks in care and treatment such as bathing, feeding, dressing, observing intake of food, care of hair, nails, moving residents from area to area, responding to calls, etc., which includes lifting, transferring
  • Helps charge nurses with the cleanliness of the nursing station, medication room, and supply room.
  • May be asked to work the floor as a Certified Nurse Aide when additonal help needed

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