Certified Medication Aide

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Center

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Posted Date: T16:51:21+00:00

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Location Type:
Skilled

Balance Life & Work with a New Career Opportunity

(LONG TERM CARE)

(SKILLED NURSING)

(ASSISTED LIVING)

Now Hiring - Certified Medication Aide (CMA) - Paramus, NJ

Salary range: $20.00-$25.00

Care One Harmony Village at Paramus

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.