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.