Certified Medication Aide at Care One, Westwood, NJ

Certified Medication Aide at Care One in Westwood, NJ. $20 to $25 an hour. Apply with swipeandhired.

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

Salary Range: $20-$25

Harmony Village at CareOne Valley

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.