Certified Medication Aide
We are now hiring 40-hour Medication Aides for 12 hour overnight shifts! Must be available every other weekend.

Hours 7pm-7am, Full Time

Principal duties and responsibilities: * Sets up medication for residents and provides medication, under the direction and monitoring of a licensed nurse, and according to physician orders. May order/reorder medications.

• Records and documents all medication, treatment and care provided for residents.
• Assists residents with activities of daily living.
• Assists residents to and from dining facilities for meals. Delivers meal trays. May assist in bussing tables after meals. Assists with pouring coffee at meals.
• Gives and receives report at shift change, counts narcotics at that time.
• Assists residents with Activities of Daily Living.
• May help residents prepare for and exercise, as appropriate.
• Takes and records vital signs of residents.
• Prepares monthly summaries, may take off physician orders and prepares chart for new residents.
• Responds to resident calls and requests.
• May launder resident’s personal clothing and linens.
• Communicates with Director of Resident Care, licensed nurse, family or responsible party as necessary.
• Calls for emergency assistance (911) for residents and/or staff as deemed necessary.
• Cleans various areas of the facility, such as medicine room, treatment room, and as needed, resident apartments, public restrooms, etc.

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Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities: * Proof of current state registry as a Medication Aid 40 required in order to be able to set up medications, administer medications, take vital signs, etc. and must be able to read and write at a level typically acquired through completion of high school.

Saint Joseph Tower is an equal opportunity employer.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $17.50 per hour

Expected hours: 36 per week

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Healthcare setting:

• Assisted living facility

Schedule:

• 12 hour shift
• Holidays
• Overnight shift

Work Location: In person