Certified Medication Aide - Huntsville Unit

UTMB Health • Huntsville, TX

19d • Onsite

About The Position

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 aide assists professional staff in maintaining a safe therapeutic environment while providing care in a correctional setting. The role is based in a clean and safe medical facility within a prison, jail, or juvenile detention center, and may involve assignment to more than one facility. Salary is commensurate with relevant work experience.

Requirements

• Current Texas Certified Medication Aide permit.
• Ability to meet the role’s physical and sensory demands, including walking, standing, lifting, and communicating clearly; lifting may involve heavy and awkward loads over 50 pounds.
• Ability to work under stress and cope emotionally with complex or changing activities.
• Security clearance is required.
• Pre-employment drug testing is required.

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 plan of care.
• Provide personal hygiene and related care, including bathing, oral suctioning, superficial wound care, assistance with chronic wound care, skin care, elimination and incontinence care, urinary catheter care, assistance with cleansing enemas, sitz baths and non-sterile douches, and ostomy care.
• Assist with feeding; ambulate, position, and turn patients; and care for patients with altered mobility.
• Support patient safety according to age and condition, including assisting with restraints and patient-specific precautions; document patient needs, emergencies, and usual behavior; and care for patients in a correctional environment.
• At incoming facilities, interview incoming patients and complete receiving and screening forms; notify clinical providers about 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; 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 standards.
• Maintain drug room security, replenish facility working drug stocks, and maintain the drug room and pharmaceutical equipment.
• Enter medication compliance into the pharmacy computer system.
• Protect patient privacy and the 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 coworkers and Security.
• Participate in orientation, in-service education, and continuing education; complete 40 hours of continuing education or in-service annually to meet ACA standards.
• Follow departmental internal controls and reporting structures and perform related duties as required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed