Nursing - Lead Medication Aide - Full Time

Lead Medication Aide

POSITION SUMMARY

The Lead Medication Technician helps create a joyful & vibrant community by caring for residents and administering and / or assisting with the self-administration of routine and non-routine and non-injectable medications by oral, rectal, or topical means in accordance with physician orders and nursing practices as directed by the Director of Nursing Services.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Assists with covering shifts as needed.
• Ensures all Med Techs are cleaning med carts as well as med room.
• Ensures all medications are ordered by med techs on time so no residents are out of medications.
• Reports to DNS all supplies needing to be reordered by the first of the month.
• Makes and keeps Care staff schedule updated as well as finds coverage to fill PTO requests. Reports any scheduling issues and overtime to DNS.
• Runs weekly audit reports in QuickMar to ensure no medication errors.
• Ensures all med techs are utilizing the shift change report daily.
• Ensures all med techs are counting and signing the Narcotic Book per state regulations.
• Assists DNS and ADNS with communicating with Physicians / Clinicians as needed.
• Initiates TSPs if med changes and or condition changes occur. Puts a copy in the med tech book and original in ADNS book as well as updates white board in med room.
• Performs all Med Tech duties as needed.

EXPERIENCE, QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representatives of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hand to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and or move up to 50 pounds, lifting 25 to 40 pounds constantly. The employee must reach below shoulder height frequently and kneel, stoop and squat occasionally. Stand 6 out of 8 hours. $1,700 Sign on Bonus for Full-time.

WHAT WE OFFER