Certified Medication Aide - TJJD Gainesville
About The Position
Correctional Managed Care addresses 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, rest, activity, nourishment, and medication distribution. The role assists professional staff in maintaining a safe therapeutic environment in a medical facility within a prison, jail, or juvenile detention center. The aide gathers and documents patient information, performs point-of-care testing, assists with personal care and mobility, and supports patient safety and intake screening. The position also involves distributing and documenting medications in accordance with Texas medication aide licensing standards, maintaining medication-room security and supplies, and entering medication compliance information into the pharmacy computer system. The aide protects patient privacy, participates in continuing education, and completes assigned work within required timeframes. Work requires shift availability and may involve assignment to more than one facility, standby duty, or extended or alternate shifts when needed. The role may involve physical effort, lifting over 50 pounds, exposure to occupational hazards, and work with disoriented or combative patients. Security clearance and pre-employment drug testing are required. Salary is commensurate with relevant work experience.
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 visual, hearing, speaking, and tactile demands needed to perform tasks and communicate accurately.
- 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 materials, equipment, objects, and/or patients; lifting may exceed 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 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, 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 assisting with restraints and patient-specific precautions; collect, report, and document information about patient needs, emergencies, and usual behavior; and care for patients in a correctional environment.
- Interview incoming patients, complete receiving and screening forms, notify appropriate clinical staff about patients needing immediate attention, record information on newly received patients, maintain required statistical logs, and perform duties for 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 from filled prescriptions to patients in general population and administrative segregation in accordance with applicable Texas medication aide licensing 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.
- Protect patient privacy and the 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 required 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/in-service hours to meet ACA standards.
- Adhere to departmental internal controls and reporting structures and perform related duties as required.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
High school or GED
