Certified Medication Aide (CMA) - Gist Unit
About The Position
Correctional Managed Care addresses 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 with cleanliness, grooming, rest, activity, nourishment, and medication distribution. The aide assists professional staff in maintaining a safe therapeutic environment and works in a medical facility within a prison, jail, or juvenile detention center. The role includes collecting and documenting patient information, supporting personal care and mobility, assisting with patient safety and intake screening, distributing and documenting medications, maintaining medication supplies and drug-room security, and preserving patient privacy. Shift work is required. The aide may be assigned to more than one facility and may need to work extended or alternate shifts or be on standby when necessary. Security clearance and pre-employment drug testing are required.
Requirements
- Current Texas Certified Medication Aide permit.
- Security clearance is required.
- Pre-employment drug testing is required.
- Ability to work shift schedules.
- Ability to meet the role's physical demands, including walking, standing, and lifting heavy or awkward loads over 50 pounds.
- Adequate vision, hearing, speech, and sense of touch to perform tasks and communicate accurately.
- Ability to sustain focused attention, remain alert, and attend carefully to detail.
- Ability to work under stress and cope emotionally with complex or changing activities.
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, incontinence, urinary catheter care, cleansing enemas, sitz baths, non-sterile douches, and ostomy care.
- Assist with feeding.
- Ambulate, position, and turn patients, and care for patients with altered mobility.
- Assist with patient safety measures appropriate to age and condition, including restraints and patient-specific precautions; collect, report, and document data about patient needs, emergencies, and usual behavior; and care for patients in a correctional environment.
- Interview incoming patients at receiving facilities, complete receiving and screening forms, alert clinicians to 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, comfortable facility environment and 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, following Title 40, Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 95, Licensing Standards for Medication Aides Handbook.
- Maintain drug-room security, replace facility working drug stocks, and maintain the facility drug room and pharmaceutical equipment.
- Enter medication compliance into the pharmacy computer system.
- Maintain patient privacy and confidentiality of information and records.
- Practice basic 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 in-service orientation and continuing education; obtain 40 hours of continuing education or in-service hours 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
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