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:

1. Checks medication with transcribed or original order.
2. Checks all information on label or package for accuracy and clarity.
3. Clearly identifies the resident with proper medication.

• Considers the following when administering a medication:

1. General use of the medication
2. Therapeutic action
3. Usual dosage
4. Factors modifying dosage and effects
5. Precautions and contraindications
6. Antidote, if known
7. Route and frequency of administration
8. Signs of deterioration of the medication
9. 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:

1. FOR NON-LEGEND (OTC) DRUGS - May be administered without prior permission.
2. 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: 

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