Certified Medication Aide - CMC - Carole Young - Full-Time

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

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Performs technical patient-care duties and supports patients’ general healthcare needs, including cleanliness, grooming, rest, activity, nourishment, and medication distribution. Assists professional staff in maintaining a safe therapeutic environment in a medical facility located within a prison, jail, or juvenile detention center. The role requires shift work and may involve assignment to more than one facility, standby duty, and extended or alternate shifts when necessary. Salary is commensurate with relevant work experience.

Requirements

Current Texas Certified Medication Aide permit.
Security clearance is required.
Pre-employment drug testing is required.
Able to meet the role’s physical demands, including walking, standing, and lifting materials, equipment, objects, and/or patients; lifting may be heavy and awkward and exceed 50 pounds.
Adequate vision, hearing, speech, and sense of touch to perform tasks such as reading small print and monitoring equipment, identifying details, and communicating clearly and accurately.
Able to sustain concentrated attention to interpret visual, auditory, and sensory inputs.
Able to work under stress and cope emotionally with complex or changing activities.
Alertness and careful attention to detail to avoid injury.

Responsibilities

Collect, report, and document patient data, including 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 according to 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, incontinence, urinary catheter, enema, sitz bath, non-sterile douche, 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 safety precautions; collect, report, and document information about patient needs, emergencies, and usual behavior; and care for patients in a correctional environment.
Interview incoming patients at facilities and complete receiving and screening forms; notify nurses and/or physicians, advanced practice providers, or mid-level practitioners when patients with health problems need 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 for patients in general population and administrative segregation from filled prescriptions, 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.
Practice cost containment and utilization management 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, including 40 hours of continuing education or in-service hours annually to meet ACA standards.
Follow department internal controls and reporting structures.
Perform related duties as required.