Certified Medication Aide – Multiple positions

Certified Medication Aide – Multiple positions

Requirements

• A current, unencumbered Oregon Certified Medication Aide certification
• Completion of an Oregon State Board of Nursing-approved medication aide training program
• Fundamentals of nursing practices and procedures, including treatment, administration of medicine and teaching of hygiene
• Therapeutic treatment, wound care, and use of specialized equipment and vital sign monitoring equipment
• Fundamentals of pharmacology
• Anatomy and physiology
• Fundamentals of nutrition
• Fundamentals of human social relationships and physical and mental growth development
• Administering medications
• Using of medical equipment appropriate to the scope of practice
• Monitoring patients’ vital signs and observing patients’ needs, requirements, and health status
• Preparing accurate written and electronic documentation, records of nursing care given, and patient progress notes
• Understanding and following written and verbal instructions and orders with accuracy and precision
• Responding firmly and tactfully with patients who are combative
• Using correct body mechanics to turn and lift patients
• Working effectively with a variety of professional and professional staff
• Working in conformance with federal and state laws, Board of Nursing regulations and agency policies and procedures
• Safely performing moderate to heavy lifting
• Ability to work with adults in custody (AICs)

Responsibilities

• Administer oral, sublingual, and buccal medications
• Administer eye medications with the exception of eye medications to new post-operative eye clients
• Administer ear, nasal, rectal and vaginal medications
• Apply skin ointments and topical medications including patches and transdermal medications
• Administer medications by gastrostomy and jejunostomy tubes, premeasured medication delivered by Aerosol/Nebulizer and medications delivered by metered hand-held inhalers
• Administer PRN Medications, including controlled substances, to stable clients according to physician’s or nurse practitioner’s orders in response to specific client requests
• Administer regularly scheduled controlled substances
• Jointly witness wasted controlled substances with a licensed nurse
• Count controlled substances with a licensed nurse or another CMA
• Under general supervision of a licensed professional, review stock on hand and initiate orders from medical stores/pharmacy for supplies as needed, receive supplies, noting and initiating corrective actions for wrong items or amounts received, and maintain inventory system
• Maintain logs and documentation records of pharmaceuticals
• Maintain dispensing records and medical records
• Produce and maintain MAR’s, physician orders, and files as needed
• Perform capillary blood glucose testing (CBG)
• Turn oxygen on and off at predetermined, established flow rate
• Add fluid to established jejunostomy or gastrostomy tube feedings and change established tube feeding bags
• Accept and transcribe verbal or telephone orders for medications from a licensed health care professional who is authorized to independently diagnose and treat
• Assist with activities of daily living (ADL’s) such as hygiene, housekeeping, basic grooming, basic daily needs to promote functional independence
• Assist with nutrition, hydration, elimination, personal care, positioning devices and restraints and restorative care
• Observe and report changes of condition to a licensed nurse

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.