Med Tech

Life Care Services•Jacksonville, FL

About The Position

Cypress Village is recruiting a hospitality-focused Medication Technician to support residents in its senior living community. The role safely prepares, administers, and charts medications according to written physician orders and established protocols. The Medication Technician checks medication doses and labels, verifies resident identity, records administration, and promptly reports medication errors or reactions to the charge nurse. The role also includes taking pulse and blood pressure, following directions for PRN medications, and accessing the controlled drug cabinet as authorized. In addition to medication-related duties, the Medication Technician assists residents with daily activities and personal care, provides treatments and performs tests and procedures as instructed, collects specimens, records observations and results, escorts and transports residents, responds promptly to signal lights, and maintains clean, orderly rooms and beds. The position is part-time, pays $17.50, and requires work every other weekend. A Med Tech certificate is required.

Requirements

Med Tech certificate required.

Responsibilities

Safely prepare, administer, and chart oral, topical, and suppository medications; the medication aide who prepares a medicine administers it.
Check and prepare each medication dose immediately before administration.
Follow medication administration protocol by checking medications against transcribed or original orders, verifying label or package information, and identifying the resident correctly.
Consider medication use, therapeutic action, usual dosage, factors that may modify dosage or effects, precautions and contraindications, antidotes if known, route and frequency, and signs of deterioration; consult the charge nurse with questions.
Record medication administration on the resident’s medication administration record; discard medication refused or not given and document it.
Immediately report medication errors and reactions to the charge nurse.
Accurately measure pulse and blood pressure and recognize their significance in drug therapy.
Administer PRN medication according to the stated procedures for over-the-counter and legend drugs, including required charge nurse assessment and documentation for legend PRN medication.
Sign for and access the controlled schedule drug cabinet.
Administer medication only upon written physician’s orders.
Assist residents with dressing, grooming, eating, bathing, positioning, turning, toileting, and exercising.
Give treatments, perform tests, carry out procedures, and collect specimens as instructed.
Report and record observations and results of treatments, tests, procedures, and specimens when indicated.
Transfer, transport, and escort residents as needed.
Respond promptly to signal lights.
Change bed linens, make beds, and keep rooms clean and orderly.