Overnight Med Tech/CNA
- Port Charlotte, FL
- $18.50 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Assists residents with dressing, grooming, eating, bathing, positioning, turning, toileting and exercising.
- Transfers, transports and escorts residents as needed.
- Answer signal lights promptly.
- Changes bed linens, makes beds, and keeps rooms clean and orderly.
- Safely prepares, administers, and charts oral, topical, and suppository drugs. The med-tech who prepares the medicine administers the same.
- Checks and prepares each dose immediately preceding administration.
- Follows administration protocol.
- Records administration of the medication on residents medication administration record. Discards medication refused or otherwise not given and records on medication administration record.
- Reports medication errors or reactions to medications immediately to the charge nurse, who, in turn, reports to the residents attending physician and completes the necessary documentation.
- Performs accurate pulse and blood pressure and recognizes their significance in drug therapy.
- Signs and has access to the controlled schedule drug cabinet.
- Administers medication only upon a written physician's order.
- Successful completion from a state approved geriatric nursing assistant training program. Prior geriatric nursing aide experience is preferred. Registration with state registry required.
- Current CNA License within the State of Florida.
- Successful completion of state approved Medicine Aide course, and when applicable, the continuing education course.
- Ability to understand and follow instructions in English, communicate effectively, and perform simple arithmetic. Ability to document care given.
- Work today, get paid tomorrow with DailyPay! South Port Square now offers DailyPay - a program that allows employees to access their earned income on demand, as it's earned.
- Benefits for full and part-time staff, including health, dental, vision, 401K and more!
- Fun, caring, inclusive work environment!