MEDICATION AIDE ENROLLMENT QUALIFICATIONS

  • Minimum age - 18
  • High school diploma or GED (General Equivalency Diploma). At registration, you must present a certified, unaltered and notarized high school diploma or transcript. The GED certificate will be mailed to TDHS with application.
  • Read, write, speak, and understand English.
  • Be free of communicable diseases and in suitable physical and emotional health to safely administer medications.
  • Comply with the WC WF/CE Immunization Screening Requirement Policy procedures and guidelines, which include, but not limited to, a criminal background check.
  • On class start date, you must be a Certified Nurse Aide listed in active status on Texas (TX) Nurse Registry and currently employed in a TX facility licensed under TX Health and Safety Code Chapter 242.
OR
  • On class start date, you must be employed as non-licensed direct care staff member in a TX facility licensed under Health and Safety Code Chapter 247, a TX Mental Retardation (MR) facility, TX state school for the mental retarded, a TX MHMR program/facility that is operated under the jurisdiction of TDMHMR, or a TX correctional institution as established under the jurisdiction of the TX Department of Criminal Justice, and have at least 90 days previous employment in the 12 month period (1 year) preceding class start date.

  • Must complete forms listing the facility where you will be employed on the first day of class. If you are a non-licensed direct care staff person, you must list the facility where you were employed for 90 days during the 12 months prior to the start date of the class.

  • Must supply the name, address, and phone number of the above-stated facility, as well as the administrator’s name.

THE DEFINITION OF FACILITY DOES NOT INCLUDE HOME HEALTH AGENCIES, HOSPITALS, OR SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES (SNF) IN HOSPITALS. INDIVIDUALS WORKING IN HOME HEALTH OR HOSPITALS DO NOT QUAILIFY TO TAKE THE TRAINING PROGRAM.

A $25 non-refundable application fee (cashier’s check or money order) to the Texas Department of Aging & Disability Services is collected the first day of class. Textbook required.