Certified Medication Aide (CMA) - Briscoe Unit

Certified Medication Aide (CMA) - Briscoe Unit Dilley, Texas, United States Allied Health UTMB Health Requisition # 2500305 The mission of Correctional Managed Care is to address the healthcare needs of underserved patient populations within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the Texas Juvenile Justice Department. _JOB SUMMARY_ : 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, non-sterile douches, and provides ostomy care. + Assists with feeding. + Ambulates, positions, and turns patients and cares for the patient with altered mobility. + Assists with patient safety related to age and condition: assists with patient restraints, assists with patient specific safety precautions, collects, reports and documents data related to patient needs/emergencies and usual patient behavior, and cares for the patient in a correctional environment. + On incoming facilities, interviews incoming patients and completes receiving/screening form; informs nurses and/or physicians/advanced practice providers/mid level practitioners of patients with health problems who need immediate attention; records on newly received patients; maintains statistical logs required for periodic reports; performs all duties necessary for psychiatric referrals and screening. + Assists in the maintenance of a safe, comfortable facility environment; obtains, stores and maintains pharmacy and nursing medications/supplies. + Distributes and documents patients' medications, both in general population and administrative segregation, from filled prescriptions, abiding by Title 40, Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 95,

Created: 2025-11-24