CMA - 2nd Shift

Job Details:
Level: Experienced,

Job Location:

PLEASANT VALLEY HEALTH CARE CENTER - MUSKOGEE, OK 74403, Position Type:
Full-Time/Part-Time, Education Level: Certified Medication Aide,

Travel Percentage :
None,

Job Shift: 2nd Shift - 2:00P.M.

- 10:00P.M., Job Category:
Health Care, Pleasant Valley Health Care Center, is an organization where you can pursue your career productively and enjoyab1y. 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 smal1 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.

• 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.

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

Responsibilites:

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, ad ministers 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 non sealing facemask only in an emergency.
• Immediately after the emergency, the medication aide shalt 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, give all routine prescribed narcotics, and document same on individual sheet and medication sheet.
• Apply specifically ordered ophthalmic, optic, and nasal medications.

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…