What are the responsibilities and job description for the Resident Services Assistant - Med Aide position at Health Dimensions Consulting Inc?
The Medication Aide is directly responsible to the Assisted Living Director.
Essential Job Functions: Provides routine daily nursing care in accordance with facility and state/federal guidelines.
Specific Job Duties:
- Maintains an active working relationship with nursing team and ancillary departments.
- Promotes the concept of customer satisfaction and positive interpersonal relationships.
- Participates in giving and receiving report from medication aides and nursing assistants.
- Demonstrates ability to perform nursing assistant duties as assigned.
- Actively participates in care conferences and scheduled meetings as appropriate.
- Attends scheduled training seminars and in-services as appropriate.
- Ensures privacy and resident rights are maintained by the nursing team.
- Reviews resident aide care sheets on a regular basis
- Ensures vital signs and weights are completed as scheduled.
- Performs restorative care and range of motion as instructed
- Follows work assignments and/or work schedules as assigned
- Willing to work in other areas across the campus as needed
- Practices good personal hygiene and facility dress code
- Assumes added duties as assigned by Charge Nurse and/or supervisor
- Demonstrates ability to perform nursing assistant duties as assigned.
- Demonstrates ability to obtain pertinent information regarding residents
- Demonstrates ability to plan and prioritize actions before starting resident cares
- Performs procedures to meet individual resident needs for daily hygiene and appearance including, but not limited to, bathing, grooming, shaving, oral cares, and nail care
- Demonstrates proper techniques of lifting, transferring, and ambulating residents
- Implements special care needs including incontinence cares, special skin care, catheter care, colostomy care, and turning/positioning techniques
- Assists and encourages residents to take adequate diet, fluids, and supplements
- Recognizes physical distress and acts to provide relief for those residents
- Identifies and reports physical and psychological symptoms or spiritual needs to appropriate staff
- Allows residents the freedom of choice in details of daily living whenever possible
- Performs and assists with activities per activity calendar/activity daily sheets
- Reports any observed physical or verbal abuse to the supervisor immediately
- Encourages residents to participate in self care as appropriate
- Assists resident with the application of prosthetics when appropriate
- Provides diversional activities as appropriate to meet resident needs
- Demonstrates effective and respectful communication with residents, families, and team members
- Demonstrates knowledge of, and adheres to, actions to assure resident and staff safety
- Demonstrates proper infection control procedures and practices
- Complies with rules and regulations of regulatory and surveying agencies
- Administers medications/performs treatments per regulations at regulatory and surveying agencies
Qualifications:
- Certified through WI CBRF as a Medication Aide.
- High school graduate or equivalent is preferred.
- Must be able to perform all the requirements of the nursing assistant job description.
- Must have no performance/attendance issues documented in the past year.
- Must possess good communication skills and a willingness to work with all team players.
- Must possess the ability to seek out new methods and principles and be willing to incorporate them into existing nursing practices.
- Previous experience in a health care facility is desired.
- Must have an acceptable criminal background check.
Schedule:
-Part-time AM Shift: 6:00am - 2:30pm*
-Part-time PM Shift: 2:00pm - 10:30pm*
-Part-time AM Shift: 6:00am - 2:30pm*
-Part-time PM Shift: 2:00pm - 10:30pm*
- Every other weekend and every other holiday required with Part-time and Full-time positions.
Pay: $18.75 - $24.62 per hour, depending on experience*
- $2.00/hour Med Aide Differential
- $1.00/hour PM Shift Differential
- $3.00/hour Weekend Shift Differential (stacked onto hourly wage and PM/NOC differentials)
- Shift differentials added to base wages for PM, NOC and Weekend shifts
Qualifications
Licenses & Certifications
Required
Med Admin CBRF Certification
Salary : $19 - $25
