Certified Medication Aide; Per Diem

Overview

We Are Inspired to Serve. Join us! The Certified Medication Assistant (CMA) / Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) is responsible for providing high-quality resident care in alignment with the organization’s mission, values, and regulatory requirements. This dual-certified role ensures the safe and accurate assistance of medications under the direction of a nurse, while also providing direct, hands-on support with activities of daily living to promote dignity, independence, and overall well-being.

The CMA/CNA collaborates closely with nursing and caregiving teams to support a person-centered care environment and ensure residents attain or maintain the highest possible physical, mental, and emotional health.

• Under the supervision of the Nurse, assists with medication and provides treatments according to physician’s orders and in accordance with facility policy. Provides, completes and documents assigned timely and accurately.
• Maintain resident rooms in a clean and orderly manner by providing light housekeeping, changing linen, making beds, putting away clothing and personal effects, tidying bedside table, shelves, closets, and cleaning bathrooms.
• Provide direct care and assistance with activities of daily living including bathing, dressing, toileting, grooming, mobility, and feeding.
• Assists residents with transfers, ambulation, and supportive devices using proper safety techniques.
• Attends and participates in facility meetings and in-service training programs.
• Practices good infection control techniques in all aspects of resident care. Prepare residents for meals, assist with serving meals and feeding of residents.
• Observes residents’ rights including privacy, dignity, etc.
• Observe residents and promptly report changes in condition, behavior, or functional status. Safeguards the resident’s privacy and property.
• Participates in the orientation of new or temporary staff to the unit to assure continuity in the delivery of resident care.
• Promotes positive public relations with residents, family members and guests.
• Provides restorative care to residents as assigned by the Nurse or as indicated in the overall plan of care.
• Assists with admissions, discharges, and transfers.
• Must be able to give clear and concise direction to staff and others.

• Required Degree:
  High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Preferred Degree: N/A
• Preferred Certificate(s):
  Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), Certified Medication Aide (CMA) and CPR. In accordance with State regulations to ensure proper training, certifications or licensure.
• Experience:
  
  0-1 Years

• Ability to communicate effectively with residents and healthcare professionals.
• Knowledge of various medications, their purposes, dosages, routes of administration, and potential side effects.
• Knowledge of privacy regulations and maintaining patient confidentiality.
• Knowledge of record-keeping skills to document medication administration and patient responses accurately.
• Ability to educate patients about their medications.

• Ability to stand, sit, talk, reach, stoop, kneel, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, and keyboard.
• Ability to lift, carry, push, and/or pull light to moderate amounts of weight up to 100 lbs.
• Ability to operate various equipment base on department.
• The ability to hear, understand, and distinguish speech and/or other sounds (e.g., machinery alarms, medical codes or alarms. Four hearing requirements listed:
  In person speech, Telephone, Other remote speech and other sounds.
• Clarity of Vision:
• • For near visual acuity Clarity of vision at approximately 20 inches or less (i.e., working with small objects or reading small print), including use of computers.
  • For far visual acuity, Clarity of vision at 20 feet or more. This is not just the ability to see a person or object, but the ability to recognize features as well.
  • For peripheral vision, observing an area that can be seen up and down or to right or left while eyes are fixed on a given point.

$15.28 - $18.66 per hour

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