fish0685

i live in texas and iam a medication aide. i went to college for 6months (at weatherford college) to become a certified medication aide. yes we are legal!!!!! and i get paid $14/hour. i work at a nursing home and we are an excellent help. if you worked in a nursing home environment you would know how much we actually are needed and a necessity. the nurses have so much work to do that they dont even have time to pass medication. yes we do administer narcartics (controlled substances) and yes we have to learn all the medication and the uses and side effects ect... we have to know all the right procedures and techniques to administer them as well. if you have any questions feel free to ask me. but iam kinda insulted that as nurses and such yahll cant even do a little research before you started saying rude and nonfactual information. doing a little research is a big part of your job. we as medication aides take a huge work load off the nurses back so they can focus on new admissions, paper work, wound changes, treatments ect...