Med Passer (1st Shift)

New Friends Memory Care and Assisted Living is looking for experienced, caring, and driven individuals that would like to join our Kalamazoo team as a Med Passer!

Job Purpose

Provides person-centered care that focuses on each individual with respect to his or her unique history, abilities, experiences, culture, and personality. Provides life enhancing care that gives purpose and meaning to the relationship between individuals with dementia, their families, Care Friends and their community.

Care Responsibilities:

- Provides direct care and assistance to the person with dementia that acknowledges the individual's remaining strengths and needs, including:

-Friendship

- Independence and dignity

- Respect and sense of control

- Treatment as an individual, not a disease

- Usefulness

- Physical comfort

- Emotional security

- Stimulating activity and meaningful relationships

- Spiritual well-being (mind, body, and spirit)

- Dispensing medications and assisting the residents to consume medications

- Assuring that the available medications coincide with what the provider has prescribed

- Never allowing resident to run out of medication

- Documenting medications given

- Destroying medications as needed and in accordance with state and community procedures

- Documenting all communication with providers, family, and the resident according to policy

- Continual observation of each resident for potential adverse reactions to medications and signs/symptoms indicating the need for a change to the medication regimen