Advanced Practice Nurse (Nurse Anesthetist)

About the role

VA Black Hills is seeking a Permanent - Full-Time Advanced Practice Nurse (Nurse Anesthetist) to care for Veterans in Fort Meade, SD. The Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) Certified Nurse Anesthetist (CNA) is a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA). The CRNA provides a full range of services emphasizing quality, timeliness, and the advancement of the Veterans Affairs (VA) mission. The CRNA provides advanced clinical practice, consultation, and management. As an employee operating in a Whole Health System of care, you will operate in a model with three core elements seeking to create a personalized health plan for each Veteran in the context of healing relationships, healing environments, and a connection back to the Veteran's community, aligning with the VHA Mission Statement to Honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with a variety of health care professionals to achieve common goals for care, safety, and welfare of patients
• Fosters high levels of confidence and satisfaction among patients and staff, as well as meet and exceed compliance standards
• Provides 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; and emergency response techniques
• Develops and implements a comprehensive anesthesia plan of care for patients requiring local, regional, general, and monitored anesthesia both inside and outside the Operating Room (OR) suite
• Ensures anesthetic services delivered throughout the facility are of the highest quality to promote patient safety, satisfaction, and improve outcomes and efficiencies
• Functions as a resource for staff education and willing to be a preceptor and adjunct clinical faculty for health care trainees rotating through the facility
• Develops and implements evidence-based practices essential to the delivery of the highest quality anesthesia care
• Prescribes appropriate preoperative, intra-operative, and postoperative orders and medications
• Exemplifies the ICARE core values: Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect, and Excellence

Qualifications

• 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Benefits

• 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
• Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Pay

Competitive salary - regular salary increases - potential for performance awards

Schedule

Monday - Friday - 7:00am - 3:30pm