Medication Technician

Embassy Healthcare

Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Brandon, Florida
Contract type: Part time
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  • Job Title

Medication Technician

  • Location

Brandon, FL

  • Department

Nursing

  • FLSA Status

Non-Exempt

  • Shifts Hiring

Part-time

  • Additional Information

1

  • Pay Grade

$15.50 to $15.75

2nd and 3rd shift

Personnel Functions

  • Ensure that department personnel, residents, and visitors follow the department’s established policies and procedures at all times.
  • Develop and maintain a good working rapport with inter-departmental personnel, as well as other departments within the facility to ensure that nursing services and activities can be adequately maintained to meet the needs of the residents.
  • Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift.
  • Review complaints and grievances made or filed by your assigned personnel. Make appropriate reports to the Nurse Supervisor as required or as may be necessary. Follow facility’s established procedures.
  • Ensure that departmental disciplinary action is administered fairly and without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, age sex, religion, handicap, or marital status.
  • Report occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, and hazardous chemicals in accordance with the facility’s policies and procedures governing accidents and incidents.

Nursing Care Functions

  • Check foods brought into the facility by the resident’s family/visitors to ensure that it is within the resident’s dietary allowances. Report problem areas to the Nurse Supervisor and Dietary Supervisor.
  • Ensure that personnel providing direct care to residents are providing such care in accordance with the resident’s care plan and wishes.
  • Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently.
  • Meet with residents, and/or family members, as necessary. Report problem areas to the Nurse Supervisor.
  • Assist in arranging transportation for discharged residents as necessary.
  • Ensure that discharged residents are escorted to the pick-up area.
  • s participate in appropriate in-service training programs prior to performing such tasks.
  • Ensure that an adequate supply of personal protective equipment are on hand and are readily available to personnel who perform procedures that involve exposure to blood or body fluids.
  • Ensure that your assigned work areas (i.e., nurses’ stations, medicine preparation rooms, etc.) are maintained in a clean and sanitary manner.
  • Ensure that your unit’s resident care rooms, treatment areas, etc., are maintained in a clean, safe, and sanitary manner.
  • Ensure that your assigned personnel follow established hand washing techniques in the administering of nursing care procedures.
  • Ensure that your assigned personnel participate in and conduct all fire safety and disaster preparedness drills in a safe and professional manner.
  • Participate in the development, implementation, and maintenance of the infection control program for monitoring communicable and/or infectious diseases among the residents and personnel.
  • Ensure that your assigned personnel follow established infection control procedures when isolation precautions become necessary.
  • Ensure that nursing personnel follow established procedures in the use and disposal of personal protective equipment.
  • Participate in the development, implementation and maintenance of the procedures for reporting hazardous conditions or equipment.
  • Ensure that all personnel wear and/or use safety equipment and supplies (e.g., back brace, mechanical lifts, etc.) when lifting or moving residents.
  • Report missing/illegible labels and MSDSs to the safety officer or other designated person.

Equipment and Supplies

  • Recommend to the Nurse Supervisor the equipment and supply needs of you unit/shift.
  • Ensure that an adequate stock level of medications, medical supplies, equipment, etc., is maintained on your unit/shift at all times to meet the needs of the residents.
  • Participate in the development and implementation of the procedures for the safe operation of all nursing service equipment.
  • Ensure that all personnel operate nursing service equipment in a safe manner.
  • Monitor nursing procedures to ensure that nursing service supplies are used in an efficient manner to avoid waste.

Resident Rights

  • Maintain the confidentiality of all resident care information.
  • Monitor nursing care to ensure that all residents are treated fairly, and with kindness, dignity, and respect.
  • Ensure that all nursing care is provided in privacy and that nursing service personnel knock before entering the resident’s room.
  • Ensure that all nursing service personnel are knowledgeable of the residents’ responsibilities and rights including the right to refuse treatment.
  • Review complaints and grievances made by the resident and make a written/oral report to the Nurse Supervisor indicating what action(s) were taken to resolve the complaint or grievance. Follow the facility’s established procedures.
  • Maintain a written record of the resident’s complaints and/or grievances that indicates the action taken to resolve the complaint and the current status of the complaint.
  • Report and investigate all allegations of resident abuse and/or misappropriation of resident property.
  • Ensure that nursing staff personnel honor the resident’s refusal of treatment request. Ensure that such requests are in accordance with the facility’s policies governing advance directives.

Working Conditions

  • Works in office area(s) as well as throughout the nursing service area (i.e., drug rooms, nurses’ stations, resident rooms, etc.).
  • Moves intermittently during working hours.
  • Is subject to frequent interruptions.
  • Is involved with residents, personnel, visitors, government agencies/personnel, etc., under all conditions and circumstances.
  • Is subject to hostile and emotionally upset residents, family members, personnel, and visitors.
  • Communicates with the medical staff, nursing personnel, and other department supervisors.
  • Works beyond normal working hours, and in other positions temporarily, when necessary.
  • Is subject to callback during emergency conditions (e.g., severe weather, evacuation, post disaster, etc.).
  • Attends and participates in continuing educational programs.
  • Is subject to injury from falls, burns from equipment, odors, etc., throughout the workday, as well as to reactions from dust, disinfectants, tobacco smoke, and other air contaminants.
  • Is subject to exposure to infectious waste, diseases, conditions, etc., including TB and the AIDS and Hepatitis B viruses.
  • May be subject to the handling of and exposure to hazardous chemicals.
  • Maintains a liaison with the residents, their families, support departments, etc., to adequately plan for the residents’ needs.

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