Certified Medication Aide
7 days ago
### Job Summary
As a Certified Medication Aide at UTMB Health, you will play a vital role in providing patient care and assisting professional staff in maintaining a safe therapeutic environment. Your responsibilities will include collecting and reporting data, assisting with patient activities, and distributing medications in accordance with Title 40, Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 95. You will also be responsible for ensuring drug room security, replacing facility working drug stocks, and maintaining the upkeep of facility drug room and pharmaceutical equipment.
### Essential Job Functions
* Collects, reports, and documents data: vital signs, height and weight, intake and output, pulse oximetry, and collect specimens.
* Assists with patient activities and care as assigned by the charge nurse/designee as indicated by the patient's plan of care.
* Provides for patient's personal hygiene; assists with chronic wound care; assists with feeding; and ambulates, positions, and turns patients with altered mobility.
* Assists in the maintenance of a safe, comfortable environment; obtains, stores, and maintains pharmacy and nursing medications and supplies.
* Distributes and documents patient's medications, both in general population and administrative segregation, from filled prescriptions, abiding by Title 40, Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 95, "Licensing Standards for Medical Aides Handbook".
* Ensures drug room security, replaced facility working drug stocks, and maintains the upkeep of facility drug room and pharmaceutical equipment.
* Enters medication compliance into the pharmacy computer system.
* Participates in in-service orientation and continuing education classes. Obtains 40 hours of continuing education/in-service hours on an annual basis to meet ACA standards.
* Adheres to internal controls and reporting structures.
* Performs related duties as required.
### Work Environment
Work environment is located within the confines of a prison, jail, or juvenile detention center. Security clearance is required; pre-employment drug testing is also required.
### Required Education/Experience
High school or GED equivalent. Current Texas Certified Medication Aide permit. Salary is commensurate with years of relevant work experience.
### Equal Employment Opportunity
UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state, or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a VEVRAA Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance women, minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.
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