Certified Medication Aide - Hughes Unit
About The Position
The Certified Medication Aide performs technical patient-care duties and contributes to patients’ general healthcare by assisting with cleanliness, grooming, rest, activity, nourishment, and medication distribution. The aide supports professional staff in maintaining a safe therapeutic environment in a medical facility located within a prison, jail, or juvenile detention center. The role includes collecting and documenting patient information, supporting personal care and mobility, assisting with screening and referrals, distributing and documenting medications, maintaining medication and supply areas, and protecting patient privacy. Work requires shift coverage and may involve assignment to multiple facilities, standby duty, or extended or alternate shifts when necessary. The setting may include occupational hazards and demanding physical or attention requirements.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED equivalent.
- Current Texas Certified Medication Aide permit.
- Security clearance is required.
- Pre-employment drug testing is required.
- Ability to meet the physical and sensory demands described, including walking, standing, lifting, and communicating clearly and accurately.
- Ability to work under stress and cope emotionally with complex or changing activities.
- Alertness and careful attention to detail to avoid injury.
Responsibilities
- Collect, report, and document patient data, including 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 and as indicated by the patient’s plan of care.
- Provide personal hygiene and related care, including bathing, oral suctioning, superficial wound care, assistance with chronic wound care, skin care, elimination, incontinence care, urinary catheter care, specified bathing and cleansing procedures, and ostomy care.
- Assist patients with feeding, ambulation, positioning, turning, and altered mobility.
- Support patient safety according to age and condition, including assistance with restraints and patient-specific safety precautions; collect, report, and document information related to patient needs, emergencies, and usual behavior; and care for patients in a correctional environment.
- Interview incoming patients at facilities and complete receiving and screening forms; alert appropriate clinical staff to patients needing immediate attention; record information on 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, in accordance with applicable Texas medication aide licensing standards.
- 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 required timeframes.
- Promote positive interpersonal relationships among coworkers and Security.
- Participate in orientation, in-service training, and continuing education, including 40 hours of annual continuing education/in-service hours to meet ACA standards.
- Adhere to 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
High school or GED
