Certified Medication Aide

CareOne Group•Jackson Township, NJ

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Certified Medication Aide (CMA) will be responsible for providing medication administration to residents under the direction of an RN. This includes assisting with patients' personal hygiene, serving meals, feeding patients, ambulating, turning, and positioning patients, providing fresh water and nourishment, administering adjunct care, checking vital signs and weight, testing urine, and recording intake and output. The CMA will also provide patient comfort by utilizing resources, transporting patients, answering call lights, and reporting observations to the nursing supervisor. Documentation of actions, maintenance of work operations, and adherence to professional standards, hospital policies, and federal, state, and local requirements are also key responsibilities. The role involves updating job knowledge through educational opportunities and enhancing the department's reputation by adding value to job accomplishments.

Requirements

Proper licensing in state of the job.
Must be experienced in administering oral, topical, optic, ophthalmic medications and subcutaneous injections.
Previous CMA experience, and must also be a Certified Nursing Assistant.
Multi-tasker, able to proceed in a courteous and professional manner.

Responsibilities

Provide medication administration to residents under direction of RN.
Provide patients' personal hygiene by giving bedpans, urinals, baths, back rubs, shampoos, and shaves; assisting with travel to the bathroom; helping with showers and baths.
Provide for activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary; ambulating, turning, and positioning patients; providing fresh water and nourishment between meals.
Provide adjunct care by administering enemas, douches, non-sterile dressings, surgical preps, ice packs, heat treatments, sits and therapeutic baths; applying restraints.
Maintain patient stability by checking vital signs and weight; testing urine; recording intake and output information.
Provide patient comfort by utilizing resources and materials; transporting patients; answering patients' call lights and requests; reporting observations of the patient to nursing supervisor.
Document actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records.
Maintain work operations by following policies and procedures.
Serve and protects the hospital community by adhering to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and JCHAO standards.
Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; participating in professional organizations; maintaining licensure.
Enhance nursing department and hospital reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.