We have med aides here in Maryland in the Assisted living facilities.  For awhile they had a few in NH but guess it wasn't working out because now I notice its all LPNs in Nh passing meds.  My dad is in Nh now so I feel so much better that a licensed person is passing meds. I am a nurse- graduated 21 yrs ago.  I still look meds up ...

Unononehigher: I am/was a certified Medication Aide and I take/took great pride in the work that I did. Why would some one hate a ''medication aide?'' We are all there for the greater purpose and bigger picture...patient care. So is it that you ''hate the job and its scope of practice or do you hate the people that ...

I took a 3 yr break from nursing in 2001 to recover from a liver transplant due to Hep C- (NOT work related) and when I came back to work in 03' there were medications aides in place at every LTC facility here, plus in doctors offices and urgent care places.  And assisted living especially.  I went back to work in an assisted living ...

After years in LTC, trying correntional nursing and then getting into home health, I have to say I prefer home health by leaps and bounds.  I started my own company and do my own thing.  I get my own clients and love being able to set my own schedule, set my own pay scale,and can treat ''my'' clients like I think an elderly patient ought ...