Certified Medication Aide - Hughes Unit
: Job Details :

Performs technical duties in the field of patient care and participates in the general health care of patients by providing assistance with cleanliness, grooming, rest, activity, nourishment, and distribution of medications. Assists the professional staff in maintaining a safe therapeutic environment. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: 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 patient 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, n...Aide, Medication, Nurse Manager, Certified, Patient Care, Charge Nurse, Healthcare