Healthcare skill
Medication Administration jobs
Giving the right drug, dose, and route to the right patient, and recording it. Heavily protocolized because the failure modes are severe. Below: the 4 occupations it unlocks on this board, live counts included, and the skills that show up beside it in real postings.
709 open nurse practitioner jobs →
What Medication Administration unlocks
Occupations whose postings name this skill, from the adjacency data the instrument runs on. Counts are live board inventory, refreshed nightly.
| Occupation | Live roles | More |
|---|---|---|
| Nurse Practitioner | 709 | salary |
| Pharmacist | 280 | salary |
| Pharmacy Technician | 183 | , |
| Paramedic | 56 | , |
Quick answers
What is Medication Administration?
Giving the right drug, dose, and route to the right patient, and recording it. Heavily protocolized because the failure modes are severe. On our board Medication Administration counts as a healthcare skill, and we pull it straight from the text of live postings every night, so the numbers on this page are what employers are asking for right now. Every skill, defined in plain language: the glossary.
How many jobs ask for Medication Administration?
Quite a few. Right now 1,228 open roles on our board sit in the 4 occupations where Medication Administration shows up in postings. The biggest of those is Nurse Practitioner, with 709 open roles today.
Skills are extracted from posting text by the nightly scrape and mapped to occupations through the same lexicon the career instrument uses. A skill page exists only while enough live roles are reachable through it; counts are inventory, never padding.