CMA - 2nd Shift

CMA - 2nd Shift

Pleasant Valley Health Care Center, is an organization where you can pursue your career productively and enjoyably. We believe we have each made the right decision, one that will result in a good working relationship. The minute you start working here, you become a part of the Pleasant Valley Health Care Center family and its future. Every job in our company is important, and you will play a key role in our facility.

We would like to take this opportunity to tell you a little about our facility. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Nevitt built our privately owned facility in 1976. At that time, their child Danny Nevitt was just a small boy. Danny still takes an active part in seeing that the facility is run correctly, appreciates, and cherishes the family atmosphere at Pleasant Valley Health Care Center.

We do this by treating each other, residents and family members with respect.

Pleasant Valley Health Care Center, Inc. full time employees are eligible for benefits including vacation pay, holiday pay, workers compensation, medical, dental, vision, life, short term disability, accident and cancer insurance.

Qualifications:

• Must have successfully completed state approved school of medications administration.
• Must carry current acknowledgement card or certificate issued by state agency.
• Must be willing to abide by restrictions place on his/her job by state agency.

Job Summary:

To pour, pass, and document all routine prescribed medications and to give PRN medications upon instruction of the LICENSED NURSE ONLY!

Responsibilities:

• Work under the supervision of a licensed vocational nurse or a registered professional nurse to perform the following duties:
• After authorization by the facility's licensed nurse or the residents treating physician, administers PRN medications. Must document all PRN's according to State Standards in all areas of the chart.
• Observe and report to the facility's charge licensed charge nurse reactions and side effects of medication commonly administered to nursing facilities residents.
• Take and record vital signs prior to administration of medications, which would affect or change the vital signs.
• Administer and document regularly prescribed medications which the medication aide is permitted to administer only after personally preparing (setting up) of those medications to be administered. Document the medications given in the resident's clinical record.
• Administer oxygen per nasal cannula or a nonsealing facemask only in an emergency.
• Immediately after the emergency, the medication aide shall verbally notify the licensed nurse on duty or on call and appropriately document the activity and notification.
• At discretion of the charge nurse, count narcotics, give all routine prescribed narcotics, and document same on individual sheet and medication sheet.
• Apply specifically ordered ophthalmic, optic, and nasal medications.

Practices or acts prohibited by non-licensed nursing personnel (medication aides) after completing the state approved training program in medication administration:

• May not administer medication by the injection route:
• Intramuscular route
• Intravenous route
• Intradermal route
• Hypodermoclysis route
• May not administer medications used for intermittent positive pressure breathing (IPPB) treatments or other methods involving medication inhalation treatments.
• Non-licensed nursing personnel (medication aides) must document on medication sheet symptoms indicated for the need of the medication and the time the symptoms occurred.
• Non licensed nursing personnel (medication aides) must document in nurses notes that the facility's licensed nurse or the treating physician was contacted, symptoms were described, permission was granted to administer the medications and the time the symptoms occurred.
• Permission to grant the administration of the medication shall be on an individual basis.
• Permission to grant the administration of medications shall not be given prior to the time the symptoms occurred.
• The administration of the authorized PRN medication must be correctly documented.
• May not calculate any resident's medication doses for administration. The medication aide may measure a prescribed amount of a liquid medication to be administered.
• May not crush medications unless the initial prior authorization is obtained from the doctor or the Director of Nursing.
• May not administer medication by way of the nasogastric tube until skill is checked by the Director of Nursing.
• May not receive or assume responsibility for reducing to writing, verbal or telephone orders from a physician.

Medication aides must function in accordance with accepted pharmaceutical and nursing practices, and as set forth in these standards.

Special demands:

• Must be able to follow accurately all principals of good medication administration.
• Must be willing to cooperate with licensed nurse in charge and be accountable for all his/her actions.
• Must be aware of limitations and not to exceed these.
• Must be willing to help with all work in whatever way possible.
• Be…