Nursing MC - Lead Medication Aide - Full Time

Job description

Lead Medication Aide POSITION SUMMARY: The Lead Medication Technician helps create a joyful & vibrant community by caring for residents and administering and/or assisting with the self-administration of routine and non-routine and non-injectable medications by oral, rectal, or topical means in accordance with physician orders and nursing practices as directed by the Director of Nursing Services. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: - Assists with covering shifts as needed. - Ensures all Med Techs are cleaning med carts as well as med room. - Ensures all medications are ordered by med techs on time so no residents are out of medications. - Reports to DNS all supplies needing to be reordered by the first of the month. - Makes and keeps Care staff schedule updated as well as finds coverage to fill PTO requests. Reports any scheduling issues and overtime to DNS. - Runs weekly audit reports in QuickMar to ensure no medication errors. - Ensures all med techs are utilizing the shift change report daily. - Ensures all med techs are counting and signing the Narcotic Book per state regulations. - Assists DNS and ADNS with communicating with Physicians/ Clinicians as needed. - Initiates TSPs if med chang...