Certified Medication Aide

Position Title: Certified Medication Aide

Hourly: $15-$17.50

Supplemental pay types:

• Differential pay
• Overtime pay

Schedule: 11 hour shifts (Days 7a- 7p) / (Nights 7p-7a)

Bi-weekly rotation

Week 1: Mon, Tues, Fri, Sat.

Week 2: Sun, Wed, Thurs.

Who we are:

When you work at Carillon Senior Living, you'll notice that it's more than a place to retire, it's a thriving community of seniors who are passionate about West Texas values, the Lubbock community and all things Texas Tech. It's a uniquely uplifting community where active older adults enjoy vibrant living, rewarding opportunities, exceptional hospitality, and great friendships. We just celebrated 50 years of serving Lubbock and West Texas as a trusted senior living community. You won''t find our unique combination of an all-inclusive lifestyle, superior hospitality, and beautiful location anywhere else. We are currently seeking an experienced Certified Medication Aide to join our Health Center team. If you're looking for a different perspective on healthcare and senior living come join us today!

You will enjoy:

• Comprehensive health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Accident insurance
• Short-term disability insurance
• Supplemental life insurance
• Personal life insurance
• Paid time off starting at 128 hours your first year
• Tuition reimbursement & scholarship opportunities
• Access to a 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan with a Carillon match
• Employee Referral Program resulting in $300 for each successful employment referral
• Offering Everyday Pay!
• Your personal and professional growth is important to us, so we provide continual professional training and career advancement opportunities.
• You will enjoy being part of a great team in a fun, engaging work environment!

Who you are:

• Holds a current Medication Aide AND Nursing Assistant Certification in Texas.
• Successfully completed competency evaluation requirements under state guidelines.
• High school Graduate or equivalent (Preferred)

Summary:

The Certified Medicine Aide assists with the administration of medications under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse or Licensed Vocational Nurse. Assists licensed nursing staff by performing routine nursing duties and activities of daily living.

Essential Job Duties:

• Assists residents with dressing, grooming, eating, bathing, positioning, turning, toileting, and exercising.
• Gives treatments, perform tests, carry‑out procedures, and collect specimens as instructed.
• Reports and records observations and results of treatments, tests, procedures and specimens when indicated.
• Transfers, transports and escorts residents as needed.
• Answers signal lights promptly.
• Performs any other duty in which the appropriate training level has been achieved.
• Make resident round with off-going shift as well as hourly, ensuring residents are clean, comfortable, and ascertaining overall condition.
• Lift, turn, and transfer residents when needed, utilizing proper safety equipment.
• Changes bed linens, makes beds and keeps rooms clean and orderly.
• Performs specific work duties and responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.
• Safely prepares, administers, and charts oral, topical, and suppository drugs. The medication aide who prepares the medicine administers same.
• Checks and prepares each dose immediately preceding administration.
• Follows administration protocol:
• Checks medication with transcribed or original order.
• Checks all information on label or package for accuracy and clarity.
• Clearly identifies the resident with proper medication.
• Considers the following when administering a medication:
• General use of the medication
• Therapeutic action
• Usual dosage
• Factors modifying dosage and effects
• Precautions and contraindications
• Antidote, if known
• Route and frequency of administration
• Signs of deterioration of the medication
• Checks with the charge nurse if there are any questions regarding any medication.
• Records administration of the medication on resident's medication administration record. Discards medication refused or otherwise not given and records on medication administration record.
• Reports medication errors or reactions to medications immediately to the charge nurse, who, in turn, reports to the resident's attending physician and completes the necessary documentation.
• Performs accurate pulse and blood pressure and recognizes their significance in drug therapy.
• Signs and has access to the controlled schedule drug cabinet.
• Administers medication only upon a written physician's order.
• Administers PRN medication only under the following directives:
• FOR NON-LEGEND (OTC) DRUGS - May be administered without prior permission.
• FOR LEGEND PRN DRUGS - CMA informs the charge nurse who first makes a bedside assessment; documents that assessment on the clinical record; giving permission of the CMA to administer medication; or charge nurse administers same. The CMA charts PRN medication on the medication administration record and in the nursing notes.

Hospitality Focus:

Carillon Senior Living fully embraces a culture of hospitality. To that end, we include the following hospitality promises as a guide for our interpersonal interactions with residents, co-workers, and guests:

• We greet residents, employees and guests warmly, by name and with a smile.
• We treat everyone with courteous respect.
• We strive to anticipate resident, employee and guest needs and act accordingly.
• We listen and respond enthusiastically in a timely manner.
• We hold ourselves and one another accountable.
• We embrace and value our differences.
• We make residents, employees and guests feel important.
• We ask, "Is there anything else I can do for you?"
• We maintain high levels of professionalism, both in conduct and appearance, at all times.
• We pay attention to details.