What are the responsibilities and job description for the Certified Medication Aide position at CareOne?
Job Description
Balance Life & Work with a New Career Opportunity
(LONG TERM CARE)
(SHORT TERM REHAB)
(SKILLED NURSING)
(ASSISTED LIVING)
(SUB ACUTE CARE)
Now Hiring - Certified Medication Aide (CMA) - (city), (state-2 ltr abbrev)
(CENTER or BUILDING)
The Certified Medication Aide (CMA) will be responsible for, but not limited to:
- Provide medication administration to residents under direction of RN.
- Provide patients' personal hygiene by giving bedpans, urinals, baths, back rubs, shampoos, and shaves; assisting with travel to the bathroom; helping with showers and baths.
- Provide for activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary; ambulating, turning, and positioning patients; providing fresh water and nourishment between meals.
- Provide adjunct care by administering enemas, douches, non-sterile dressings, surgical preps, ice packs, heat treatments, sits and therapeutic baths; applying restraints.
- Maintain patient stability by checking vital signs and weight; testing urine; recording intake and output information.
- Provide patient comfort by utilizing resources and materials; transporting patients; answering patients' call lights and requests; reporting observations of the patient to nursing supervisor.
- Document actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records.
- Maintain work operations by following policies and procedures.
- Serve and protects the hospital community by adhering to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and JCHAO standards.
- Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; participating in professional organizations; maintaining licensure.
- Enhance nursing department and hospital reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
Position Requirements:
- Proper licensing in state of the job.
- Must be experienced in administering oral, topical, optic, ophthalmic medications and subcutaneous injections.
- Previous CMA experience, and must also be a Certified Nursing Assistant.
- Multi-tasker, able to proceed in a courteous and professional manner.
Posting Date: 2025-03-24T14:23:54 00:00
Locations: 493 Black Oak Ridge Road Wayne NJ 07470
