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About The Position

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED equivalent.
• Current Texas Certified Medication Aide permit.
• Security clearance is required.
• Pre-employment drug testing is required.
• Ability to meet the physical demands of the role, including walking, standing, and lifting materials, equipment, objects, and/or patients; lifting may be heavy and awkward, over 50 lbs.
• 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.
• Ability to maintain concentrated attention and alertness, work under stress, and cope emotionally with complex or changing activities.
• 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 assigned by the charge nurse or designee 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, catheter and incontinence care, cleansing enemas, sitz baths, non-sterile douches, and ostomy care.
• Assist with feeding, ambulation, positioning, and turning; 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; provide care in a correctional environment.
• Interview incoming patients, complete receiving and screening forms, notify clinical providers of patients needing immediate attention, record information on newly received patients, maintain statistical logs, and perform duties for 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 Title 40, Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 95, Licensing Standards for Medication Aides Handbook.
• 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 confidentiality of information and records.
• Apply basic cost containment and utilization management practices in patient care and facility operations.
• Prioritize and organize work to complete assignments within specified timeframes.
• Promote positive interpersonal relationships with coworkers and Security.
• Participate in orientation and continuing education, completing 40 annual continuing education/in-service hours to meet ACA standards.
• Adhere to departmental internal controls and reporting structures and perform related duties as required.