Certified Medication Aide

Nursing Students CNA/MA

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Is it true that CNA's can get certified as a medication aide? If so, how does one go about doing that? I'm taking a CNA course in July and I also like to be certified in dispensing medication. Does anyone know of any programs in Chicago/South Suburbs Illinois who offer this?

TIA

I'm amazed at the number of people on here that think med aides blindly shovel pills into peoples' mouths.

In my class, we had to create drug cards for commonly used meds.

On our MARs, we have certain assessment data to collect (nothing more than VS) before giving certain meds, and there are ALWAYS parameters for giving/holding those types of meds, and these are printed on the MAR (i.e., hold metoprolol if HR

Under each med on the MAR, there is a list of common side effects to watch for and report.

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