Certified Medication Technician jobs in Altoona, PA

1.  Work to achieve and maintain continuity of resident care by assisting in planning and exchanging information with other health professionals, as well as family members.

2.  Provide physical and emotional support to the residents.

3.  Observe and report significant changes in resident condition.

4.  Assist with resident admissions, transfers, and discharges.

5.  Document changes in condition, incidents, physician visits, and physician orders in nurse’s notes in resident charts where applicable.

6.  Respond to emergency situations competently and calmly; exercise appropriate judgment.

7.  Provide direct supervision to the care aides and assist in planning and coordinating quality care.

8.  Integrate care with other services and assist with recreation and socialization programs.

9.  Assure resident safety, including accounting for resident location at all times.

10.  Provide general individual resident care and treatments.

11. Check and store medications when the medication order is received.

12.  Complete Incident and Accident Reports as necessary and report to administrator.

13.  Develop and maintain a good working rapport with interdepartmental personnel to meet the needs of the residents.

14.  Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest, calm and positivity.

15.  Inspect resident rooms, nurses’ station, and the facility common areas for cleanliness.

16.  Attend in-service programs and staff meetings when scheduled.

17.  Make resident rounds as required by each resident’s support plan.

18.  Measure and record temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, weight and height as necessary.

19.  Answer resident call lights promptly.

20.  Provide an encouraging environment to promote reality orientation and self-help abilities.

21.  Handle and move residents.

22.  Lift and carry supplies.

23.  Prepare and pass medications accurately and timely.

24.  Ensure that items for resident use are properly recorded in resident supply book.

25.  Practice safe working habits.

26. Assist with planning physician appointments and transportation for said appointments.

27. Ensure and advocate for resident rights.

28. Ensure HIPPA confidentiality is maintained by speaking to authorized persons only regarding the resident.

29. Provide wound care as necessary.

30. Inventory medications and order medication refills as necessary to ensure there is no lapse between doses.

31. Retrieve resident laundry to be washed, dried and returned within 24 hours.

32. Disinfect assistive devices (such as walkers, wheelchairs, oxygen tubes) and ensure they are in working condition at all times.

33. Assume responsibility for accountability of medication when on shift.

34. File pertinent paperwork in medical chart.

35. Adhere to facility policy of narcotic distribution, storage, and accounting methods.

36. Assume legal accountability for residents and medication while on shift by providing signature.

37. Ensure that any medication storage receptacles are locked when medication technician is not present.

38. Report hospitalizations, change in conditions, and count narcotic distribution with oncoming shift.

39. Accurately and timely administer insulin with each individual resident glucometer and disinfect after administration.

40. Demonstrate safe needle recapping techniques and store sharps in designated sharps container.