What are the responsibilities and job description for the Certified Medication Aide- Must have CNA! position at Resthaven (Holland, Michigan)?
Certified Medication Aide (CMA)
Ready to Advance Your CNA Career?
If you're a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) looking to grow in your profession, become a Certified Medication Aide (CMA) and take the next step in Skilled Nursing. This is not a Med Tech position—CMAs in Skilled Nursing are trained, certified, and entrusted with more responsibility and clinical oversight.
Why Join Us?
✔ A supportive and mission-driven work culture
✔ Opportunities for growth, leadership, and development
✔ A chance to make a real impact in the lives of residents every day
Ready to Advance Your CNA Career?
If you're a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) looking to grow in your profession, become a Certified Medication Aide (CMA) and take the next step in Skilled Nursing. This is not a Med Tech position—CMAs in Skilled Nursing are trained, certified, and entrusted with more responsibility and clinical oversight.
Why Join Us?
- Career Growth: Start as a CMA and unlock pathways to advanced healthcare roles like LPN or RN.
- Competitive Pay & Benefits: Enjoy a robust benefits package, including health insurance, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement for continued education.
- Supportive Environment: Work in a collaborative, patient-centered team with flexible scheduling options.
- Make an Impact: Be the heart of patient care, ensuring safe and effective medication administrations.
- Administer prescribed medications (oral, topical, inhalation, and mucosal) to patients in accordance with state regulations.
- Adhere to the “Five Rights” of medication administration.
- Monitor and report patient reactions to medications.
- Assist nurses and healthcare staff in long-term care and assisted living settings.
- Maintain accurate records and uphold the highest standards of patient safety.
- Aide in total care of grooming, bathing, oral hygiene, feeding, incontinent care, toileting, transferring, ambulation, range of motion, communicating, turning, repositioning, or other needs (ADLs).
- Assist with various tasks including vital signs, resident’s weights, applying creams/ointments, collecting specimens, etc.
- Support Resthaven’s mission, values, and standards of excellence
- High school graduate or successful completion of GED.
- Successful completion of a Michigan state approved nurse assistant certification course or other education that meets state certification requirements.
- Must hold current nurse assistant certification in Michigan.
- Must have worked at least 2,000 hours as a nurse aide in a nursing home or skilled nursing facility during the two years prior, especially caring for the elderly with memory loss.
- Completion of a Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) - approved Medication Aide training program
- Successful completion of the state CMA competency exam.
- Current listing on the Michigan Nurse Aide Registry as CMA.
✔ A supportive and mission-driven work culture
✔ Opportunities for growth, leadership, and development
✔ A chance to make a real impact in the lives of residents every day
