Certified Medication Aide - PER DIEM ALL SHIFTS

Balance Life & Work with a New Career Opportunity

Now Hiring - Certified Medication Aide (CMA) - Bound Brook, NJ

CareOne at Somerset Valley Assisted Living

Salary Range

$21.00 to $26.00 per hour

The Certified Medication Aide (CMA) will be responsible for, but not limited to

• 1.
• Provide medication administration to residents under direction of RN.
• 2.
• 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.
• 3.
• 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.
• 4.
• Provide adjunct care by administering enemas, douches, non-sterile dressings, surgical preps, ice packs, heat treatments, sits and therapeutic baths; applying restraints.
• 5.
• Maintain patient stability by checking vital signs and weight; testing urine; recording intake and output information.
• 6.
• Provide patient comfort by utilizing resources and materials; transporting patients; answering patients' call lights and requests; reporting observations of the patient to nursing supervisor.
• 7.
• Document actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records.
• 8.
• Maintain work operations by following policies and procedures.
• 9.
• Serve and protects the hospital community by adhering to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and JCHAO standards.
• 10.
• Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; participating in professional organizations; maintaining licensure.
• 11.
• 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