Certified Medication Aide (CMA) - Dominguez Unit

Position Overview

The mission of Correctional Managed Care is to address the healthcare needs of underserved patient populations within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the Texas Juvenile Justice Department. In this role, you will perform technical duties in patient care and assist the professional staff by providing help with cleanliness, grooming, rest, activity, nourishment, and the distribution of medications while maintaining a safe therapeutic environment. Compensation: Salary is commensurate with years of relevant work experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Collects, reports and documents data: vital signs, height and weight, intake and output, pulse oximetry, and collects specimens.
• Performs and reports Point of Care Testing.
• Assists with patient activities and care as assigned by the charge nurse/designee as indicated by the patient's plan of care.
• Provides for patients' personal hygiene: bathes patients, performs oral suctioning and superficial wound care, assists with chronic wound care, provides skin care for patients with TED hose, SCD, casts, skeletal pins; assists with elimination, cares for the incontinent patient, cares for the patient with a urinary catheter, assists or gives cleansing enemas, sitz baths, non-sterile douches, and provides ostomy care.
• Assists with feeding.
• Ambulates, positions, and turns patients and cares for patients with altered mobility.
• Assists with patient safety related to age and condition: applies patient restraints, observes specific safety precautions, documents data related to patient needs/emergencies and usual behavior, and cares for patients in a correctional environment.
• Interviews incoming patients, completes receiving/screening forms, informs clinical staff of urgent health problems, maintains statistical logs, and performs duties necessary for psychiatric referrals and screening.
• Assists in maintaining a safe, comfortable facility; obtains, stores, and maintains pharmacy and nursing medications/supplies.
• Distributes and documents patients' medications in both general population and administrative segregation in accordance with Title 40, Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 95, "Licensing Standards for Medication Aides Handbook".
• Ensures drug room security, replaces working drug stocks, and maintains facility drug room and pharmaceutical equipment.
• Enters medication compliance data into the pharmacy computer system.
• Maintains patient privacy and confidentiality of information and records at all times.
• Practices cost containment and utilization management for patient care and facility operations.
• Prioritizes and organizes work to meet assignment timeframes.
• Promotes positive interpersonal relationships among co-workers and security personnel.
• Participates in in-service orientation and continuing education classes, obtaining 40 hours of continuing education/in-service training annually to meet ACA standards.
• Adheres to established internal controls and reporting structures.
• Performs related duties as required.

Required Qualifications

• High school or GED equivalent.
• Current Texas Certified Medication Aide permit.
• Security Clearance: Required; pre-employment drug testing is also required.