Certified Medication Aide (CMA) - Lindsey Unit
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, assists with patients’ cleanliness, grooming, rest, activity, nourishment, and medication distribution, and helps professional staff maintain a safe therapeutic environment. The role is based in a clean and safe medical facility within a prison, jail, or juvenile detention center. Work may involve noise, odors, cramped spaces, or fumes; moderate to extreme physical effort, including lifting over 50 pounds; and exposure to communicable diseases, radiation, chemotherapeutic agents, or disoriented or combative patients. Shift work is required. The aide may be assigned to multiple facilities and may need to be on standby or work extended or alternate shifts when necessary. Security clearance and pre-employment drug testing are required. Salary is commensurate with relevant work experience. UTMB Health is an equal opportunity employer and takes affirmative action to hire and advance protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Requirements
- Current Texas Certified Medication Aide permit.
- 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 patient-care tasks and communicate accurately.
- Ability to sustain focused attention, work under stress, and cope emotionally with complex or changing activities.
- Security clearance is required.
- Pre-employment drug testing is required.
- Ability to work shifts; may need to work at more than one facility, be on standby, or work extended or alternate shifts when necessary.
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 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, urinary catheters, cleansing enemas, sitz baths, non-sterile douches, and ostomy care.
- Assist with feeding, ambulation, positioning, and turning, and care for patients with altered mobility.
- Support patient safety according to age and condition, including assisting with restraints and patient-specific safety precautions, documenting needs, emergencies, and usual behavior, and caring for patients in a correctional environment.
- Interview incoming patients, complete receiving and screening forms, notify clinicians of health problems requiring immediate attention, record newly received patients, maintain required statistical logs, and perform duties for 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 patient medications in general population and administrative segregation from filled prescriptions, following applicable Texas medication-aide licensing standards.
- Ensure 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.
- 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 assignments within specified timeframes.
- Promote positive interpersonal relationships among coworkers and Security.
- Participate in orientation and continuing education, completing 40 hours of continuing education or in-service annually to meet ACA standards.
- Adhere to departmental 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
