Medication Aide

CCH Hudson•Hudson, WI

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Medication Aide is directly responsible to the Assisted Living Director. This role provides routine daily nursing care in accordance with facility and state/federal guidelines. The Medication Aide maintains an active working relationship with the nursing team and ancillary departments, promotes customer satisfaction and positive interpersonal relationships, and participates in giving and receiving report from medication aides and nursing assistants. The position requires the ability to perform nursing assistant duties, actively participate in care conferences and meetings, and attend scheduled training seminars and in-services. Ensuring resident privacy and rights are maintained, reviewing resident aide care sheets, and ensuring vital signs and weights are completed as scheduled are key responsibilities. The role also involves performing restorative care, following work assignments, and being willing to work in other areas across the campus as needed. Practicing good personal hygiene and facility dress code, assuming added duties as assigned, and demonstrating the ability to obtain pertinent resident information, plan and prioritize actions, and perform procedures to meet individual resident needs for daily hygiene and appearance are essential. This includes bathing, grooming, shaving, oral cares, and nail care. The Medication Aide must demonstrate proper techniques for lifting, transferring, and ambulating residents, implement special care needs (incontinence, skin care, catheter care, colostomy care, turning/positioning), and assist/encourage residents with adequate diet, fluids, and supplements. Recognizing and acting to relieve physical distress, identifying and reporting physical, psychological, or spiritual needs, and allowing residents freedom of choice are also crucial. The role includes performing and assisting with activities, reporting observed abuse immediately, encouraging resident self-care, assisting with prosthetics, and providing diversional activities. Effective and respectful communication with residents, families, and team members, knowledge of and adherence to resident and staff safety protocols, proper infection control procedures, and compliance with regulatory agencies are required.

Requirements

Certified through WI CBRF as a Medication Aide.
High school graduate or equivalent is preferred.
Must be able to perform all the requirements of the nursing assistant job description.
Must have no performance/attendance issues documented in the past year.
Must possess good communication skills and a willingness to work with all team players.
Must possess the ability to seek out new methods and principles and be willing to incorporate them into existing nursing practices.
Must have an acceptable criminal background check.

Nice To Haves

Previous experience in a health care facility is desired.

Responsibilities

Provides routine daily nursing care in accordance with facility and state/federal guidelines.
Maintains an active working relationship with nursing team and ancillary departments.
Promotes the concept of customer satisfaction and positive interpersonal relationships.
Participates in giving and receiving report from medication aides and nursing assistants.
Demonstrates ability to perform nursing assistant duties as assigned.
Actively participates in care conferences and scheduled meetings as appropriate.
Attends scheduled training seminars and in-services as appropriate.
Ensures privacy and resident rights are maintained by the nursing team.
Reviews resident aide care sheets on a regular basis.
Ensures vital signs and weights are completed as scheduled.
Performs restorative care and range of motion as instructed.
Follows work assignments and/or work schedules as assigned.
Willing to work in other areas across the campus as needed.
Practices good personal hygiene and facility dress code.
Assumes added duties as assigned by Charge Nurse and/or supervisor.
Demonstrates ability to obtain pertinent information regarding residents.
Demonstrates ability to plan and prioritize actions before starting resident cares.
Performs procedures to meet individual resident needs for daily hygiene and appearance including, but not limited to, bathing, grooming, shaving, oral cares, and nail care.
Demonstrates proper techniques of lifting, transferring, and ambulating residents.
Implements special care needs including incontinence cares, special skin care, catheter care, colostomy care, and turning/positioning techniques.
Assists and encourages residents to take adequate diet, fluids, and supplements.
Recognizes physical distress and acts to provide relief for those residents.
Identifies and reports physical and psychological symptoms or spiritual needs to appropriate staff.
Allows residents the freedom of choice in details of daily living whenever possible.
Performs and assists with activities per activity calendar/activity daily sheets.
Reports any observed physical or verbal abuse to the supervisor immediately.
Encourages residents to participate in self care as appropriate.
Assists resident with the application of prosthetics when appropriate.
Provides diversional activities as appropriate to meet resident needs.
Demonstrates effective and respectful communication with residents, families, and team members.
Demonstrates knowledge of, and adheres to, actions to assure resident and staff safety.
Demonstrates proper infection control procedures and practices.
Complies with rules and regulations of regulatory and surveying agencies.
Administers medications/performs treatments per regulations at regulatory and surveying agencies.