Advanced Practice Nurse-Certified Nurse Anesthetist-Recruitment/Relocation Incentive-EDRP Authorized

This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) — a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Approval, award amount (up to $200,000), and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office. Former EDRP participants are ineligible to apply.

Responsibilities

• Administer anesthesia in both inpatient and outpatient settings to patients of all health complexities.
• Collaborate with a variety of health care professionals to achieve common goals for care, safety, and welfare of patients.
• Provide anesthetic services within five general categories:
  • Pre-anesthesia evaluation and preparation
  • Anesthesia induction, maintenance, and emergence
  • Post-anesthesia care
  • Peri-anesthetic and clinical support functions
  • Emergency response techniques
• Develop and implement a comprehensive anesthesia plan of care for patients requiring local, regional, general, and monitored anesthesia both inside and outside the Operative Room (OR) suite.
• Ensure anesthetic services delivered throughout the facility are of the highest quality to promote patient safety, satisfaction, and improve outcomes and efficiencies.
• Function as a resource for staff education; precept and serve as adjunct clinical faculty for health care trainees rotating through the facility.
• Develop and implement evidence-based practices essential to delivering the highest quality anesthesia care.
• Prescribe appropriate preoperative, intra-operative, and post-operative orders and medications.

Benefits

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package:

• Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards.
• Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays).
• Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% contributions by VA.
• Insurance: Federal health, vision, dental, term life, and long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement).
• Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory.

Schedule

• Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday–Friday, 6:30 AM–3:00 PM.
• Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized for highly qualified individuals.
• Telework: Not available.
• Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized.