med passer a good job for student nurse?

[esunada]

I work in an assisted living facility with Alzheimers patients right now in a job similar to a nursing assistant. I've been thinking about moving on after a year to become a med passer at the same facility. Technically it's a promotion, but is this better experience for a nursing student or are med passers looked down upon.

Ideally I'd like to be a CNA at a hospital but market is a bit tight right now and my schedule is not the most flexible.

[Simba&NalasMom, LPN]

Definitely!! It will be that much less you have to worry about when you become a nurse. I would just make sure your facility has adequate training.

To those who have posted about the dangers of med techs: I also live in a state that uses med aides (OR). The training is 76 hours plus a week's worth of clinicals. Med aides must be CNAs for at least 6 hours to do the training. In my LPN program, I spent a TOTAL of 16 hours passing meds during clinicals. In my experience, med aides make far fewer med errors than nurses do!