Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist

About the role

The Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist owns safe, individualized anesthesia care from pre-anesthetic assessment through post-anesthesia recovery. This role evaluates patient history, laboratory data, and diagnostic studies; develops appropriate care plans; administers anesthesia and sedation; manages airways; monitors physiological changes; and responds decisively to complications or emergencies. The CRNA partners with the clinical team to support effective procedures, pain control, recovery, accurate documentation, and reliable patient outcomes. Success is measured through safe anesthesia delivery, timely recognition of risk, high-quality records, regulatory compliance, patient-centered communication, and sustained contribution to departmental quality and safety goals.

Responsibilities

• Own comprehensive pre-anesthetic assessments by reviewing medical histories, laboratory data, and diagnostic studies, translating findings into individualized plans that reduce procedural risk and support safe patient outcomes.
• Administer general, regional, monitored anesthesia care, and sedation using appropriate techniques, medications, and equipment while maintaining continuous clinical judgment and control of the anesthesia process.
• Monitor patients throughout anesthesia administration, identify meaningful changes in condition, and intervene promptly through appropriate adjustments, escalation, and communication with the interdisciplinary care team.
• Manage patient airways using clinically appropriate techniques and equipment, maintaining readiness for difficult airway situations, advanced airway intervention, resuscitation, and emergency stabilization.
• Own accurate anesthesia records and clinical documentation, ensuring information supports continuity of care, legal and regulatory requirements, quality review, and reliable post-procedure decision-making.
• Conduct post-anesthesia evaluations and management, including pain control and recovery assessment, so patients transition safely and care teams receive timely, actionable clinical information.
• Contribute to quality improvement, patient safety, departmental meetings, continuing education, mandatory training, and initiatives that improve anesthesia reliability, clinical competency, and operational outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing
• Active New York Registered Nurse license
• Graduation from an accredited nurse anesthesia program
• Board certification as a CRNA (required)
• Current BLS certification through the American Heart Association or American Red Cross
• ACLS certification
• Ownership of accurate records, professional accountability, commitment to regulatory compliance, and willingness to contribute to quality improvement, patient safety, departmental meetings, continuing education, mandatory training, and ongoing clinical competency

Skills

• Advanced competence in pre-anesthetic evaluation, general and regional anesthesia, monitored anesthesia care, sedation, airway management, post-anesthesia recovery, pain control, and emergency resuscitation.
• Strong clinical judgment, patient monitoring, documentation, interdisciplinary communication, and ability to respond calmly and effectively to changing patient conditions.
• Current clinical knowledge supported by a valid New York RN license, CRNA board certification, BLS certification through the American Heart Association or American Red Cross, and ACLS certification.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Eligibility for employer 401(k) funding after one year, including 3% quarterly and 5% annual contributions subject to the applicable vesting schedule