Certified Medication Aide - Pack Unit
About The Position
Correctional Managed Care works to address the healthcare needs of underserved patient populations within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the Texas Juvenile Justice Department. The Certified Medication Aide performs technical patient-care duties and supports patients’ general health needs, including cleanliness, grooming, activity, nourishment, and medication distribution. The role also assists professional staff in maintaining a safe therapeutic environment in a correctional healthcare setting. The position involves collecting and documenting patient data, providing personal care, supporting patient safety and mobility, assisting with intake and screening, and distributing and documenting medications in accordance with Texas medication aide licensing standards. The aide maintains medication supplies and drug-room security, protects patient privacy, and participates in required training and continuing education. Work takes place in a clean, safe medical facility located within a prison, jail, or juvenile detention center. The role requires shift work and may involve assignment to more than one facility, standby duty, or extended or alternate shifts when necessary. Conditions may include noise, odors, cramped workspaces, fumes, occupational hazards, and contact with disoriented or combative patients. Moderate to extreme physical effort may be required, including lifting heavy or awkward loads over 50 pounds.
Requirements
- Current Texas Certified Medication Aide permit.
- Security clearance is required.
- Pre-employment drug testing is required.
- Ability to meet the role’s visual, hearing, speaking, and touch requirements to perform tasks accurately and communicate clearly.
- Ability to work under stress and cope emotionally with complex or changing activities.
- Ability to perform moderate to extreme physical effort, including walking, standing, and lifting heavy or awkward items or patients over 50 pounds.
Responsibilities
- Collect, report, and document vital signs, height and weight, intake and output, pulse oximetry, and specimens.
- Perform and report Point of Care Testing.
- Assist with patient activities and care as assigned by the charge nurse or designee according to the patient’s plan of care.
- Provide personal hygiene and related care, including bathing, oral suctioning, superficial wound care, assistance with chronic wound care and skin care, elimination and catheter care, enemas, sitz baths, non-sterile douches, and ostomy care.
- Assist with feeding, ambulation, positioning, turning, and care for patients with altered mobility.
- Support patient safety according to age and condition, including assistance with restraints and patient-specific precautions; collect, report, and document data related to patient needs, emergencies, and usual behavior; and care for patients in a correctional environment.
- Interview incoming patients at receiving facilities and complete receiving and screening forms; alert clinical practitioners to patients needing immediate attention; record newly received patients; maintain statistical logs; and perform duties related to psychiatric referrals and screening.
- Help maintain a safe and comfortable facility environment and obtain, store, and maintain pharmacy and nursing medications and supplies.
- Distribute and document medications for patients in general population and administrative segregation from filled prescriptions, following Title 40, Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 95, Licensing Standards for Medication Aides Handbook.
- Maintain drug-room security, replace facility working drug stocks, and maintain the drug room and pharmaceutical equipment.
- Enter medication compliance information into the pharmacy computer system.
- Maintain patient privacy and confidentiality of information and records.
- Apply basic cost containment and utilization management practices for patient care and facility operations.
- Prioritize and organize work to complete assignments within specified timeframes.
- Promote positive interpersonal relationships among co-workers and Security.
- Participate in orientation and continuing education, completing 40 hours of annual continuing education or in-service hours to meet ACA standards.
- Follow department internal controls and reporting structures.
- Perform related duties as required.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
