Certified Medication Aide (CMA) - Scott Unit

University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)•Richmond, TX

17d•Onsite

About The Position

The Certified Medication Aide performs technical patient-care duties and supports patients’ general healthcare needs, including assistance with personal care, nourishment, activity, and medication distribution. The role also assists professional staff in maintaining a safe therapeutic environment in a medical facility located within a prison, jail, or juvenile detention center. The position involves collecting and documenting patient data, performing point-of-care testing, supporting patient care plans, and assisting with hygiene, mobility, feeding, safety precautions, intake screening, and psychiatric referrals. The aide distributes and documents medications in accordance with Texas medication aide licensing standards, maintains drug-room security and supplies, and enters medication compliance information into the pharmacy computer system. The role requires maintaining patient confidentiality, completing required continuing education, and working shifts. Security clearance and pre-employment drug testing are required.

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 role’s physical demands, including walking, standing, and lifting materials, equipment, objects, or patients; lifting may exceed 50 pounds.
Adequate vision, hearing, speech, and sense of touch to perform tasks and communicate accurately.
Ability to maintain alertness and attention to detail, work under stress, and cope with complex or changing activities.
Obtain 40 hours of continuing education/in-service hours annually to meet ACA standards.

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 directed by the charge nurse or designee and as indicated by the patient’s care plan.
Provide personal hygiene and related care, including bathing, oral suctioning, superficial wound care, assistance with chronic wound care, skin care, elimination, catheter and incontinence care, enemas, sitz baths, non-sterile douches, 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 precautions; document and report patient needs, emergencies, and usual behavior; provide care in a correctional environment.
Interview incoming patients and complete receiving and screening forms; alert nurses or providers to patients needing immediate attention; record newly received patients; maintain statistical logs; and complete duties related to psychiatric referrals and screening.
Help maintain a safe and comfortable facility environment; obtain, store, and maintain pharmacy and nursing medications and supplies.
Distribute and document medications from filled prescriptions in general population and administrative segregation in accordance with applicable Texas medication aide standards.
Maintain drug-room security, replenish 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 to patient care and facility operations.
Prioritize and organize work to complete assignments within required timeframes.
Promote positive interpersonal relationships with co-workers and Security.
Participate in orientation, in-service training, and continuing education; complete 40 hours of annual continuing education/in-service hours to meet ACA standards.
Follow department internal controls and reporting structures and perform related duties as required.