Medication Aide Training

The Medication Aide program prepares you to give medications to residents in:

• Nursing facilities
• Intermediate care and community-based facilities for people with intellectual disabilities
• Correctional institutions
• Assisted living (personal care) facilities

Admission requirements

To work as a medication aide in a licensed Texas facility, you must:

• Read, write, speak and understand English
• Be at least 18 years old
• Be free of communicable diseases and in suitable physical and emotional health to give medications safely
• Work in a facility as a certified nurse aide or unlicensed direct-care staff person on the first day of training
• Have worked in a facility for 90 days as unlicensed direct-care staff
• If you studied outside the U.S., have your documents verified as equivalent to a U.S. high school diploma

Home health agencies, hospitals, skilled nursing units in hospitals, staffing agencies, city or county jails and adult day care do not count toward the work requirement.

Renewing?

Take the 7-hour in-service course online any time, or at the school Monday – Friday 8 AM – 7 PM (Saturday by appointment). Email your completed Form 5504 to the school; please do not mail it to the State.