Medication Aide
This course is designed to prepare non-licensed personnel with the skills required by the State of North Carolina 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 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