Medication Aide
This course is designed to prepare non-licensed personnel with the skills required by the North Carolina Board of Nursing to practice as a Medication Aide in long-term care/skilled nursing facilities within the state of North Carolina. Course topics include:
- Safe and accurate administration of medications via the following routes: oral, eye, ear, nasal, topical, inhalant, nebulizer, vaginal, and rectal.
- Medical asepsis, hand hygiene, terminology, and legal implications.
Students are not taught: IM, IV, subcutaneous, injections or administration of meds via G-tubes.
Upon successful completion, students are eligible to sit for the state examination in order to become listed on the North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation Medication Aide registry.
Admission Requirements:
- Must be 18 years of age
- High school diploma or high school equivalency
- Current listing with the Division of Health Service Regulation as a Nurse Aide I with no substantiated findings of abuse, neglect or misappropriation of property
- Proof of completion of a minimum 75-hour, state approved Nurse Aide I course
- Social security card – name must match government issued photo ID
- Government issued photo ID – name must match social security card