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The Healthcare Center at Buck Creek is 198 bed long term, short term and rehabilitation center in Alabaster, AL 35007. We are rewarding and fun.
We are currently building out a dream team of people who want to work in a place where they can love where they work, love the team they are apart of, and use their passion for resident care to help us excel past our residents expectations. We need your skills, passion and attitude to help us carve out the path of the future.
Benefits for full-time Include:
- Competitive Pay (based on experience)
- Daily Pay Offered
- Shift Differential Pay / Weekend Pay
- Referral Bonus
- Health- Dental-Vision- Life Insurance
- PTO / PAID HOLIDAYS
Key Responsibilities:
Work under the supervision of a licensed vocational nurse or a registered professional nurse to perform the following duties:
- After authorization by the facility's licensed nurse or the resident's treating physician, administers PRN medications.
- Organizes assigned medication duties to pour, pass, and document all routine prescribed medications and to give PRN medication only upon the instruction of the licensed nurse.
- Must document all PRN's according to State Standards in all areas of the chart.
- Observe and report to the facility's charge licensed nurse reactions and side effects of medication commonly administered to nursing facility's residents.
- Take and record vital signs prior to administration of medications which could affect or change the vital signs.
- Administer and document regularly prescribed medications which the medication aide is permitted to administer only after personally preparing (setting up) of those medications to be administered. Document the medications given in the resident's clinical record.
- Administer oxygen per nasal channel or a non-sealing face mask only in an emergency. Immediately after the emergency, the medication aide shall verbally notify the licensed nurse on duty or on call and appropriately document the activity and notification.
- At discretion of charge nurse, count narcotics, give all routine prescribed narcotics, and document same on individual sheet and medication sheet.
Qualifications
- Must have successfully completed state approved school of medication administration.
- Must carry current acknowledgment card or certification issued by state agency.
- Must be willing to abide by restrictions placed on his/her job by state agency.
- Must be a certified nursing assistant.
(EOE)
Employment Type: FULL_TIME
