CRNA/CAA, PRN, Days

This position is assigned to the Surgery Center campus. The CRNA/CAA cares for patients at all acuity levels across the lifespan in a variety of settings for procedures including, but not limited to, surgical, obstetrical, diagnostic, therapeutic, and pain management.

Responsibilities

• Select, obtain, order, and administer preanesthetic medication or treatment.
• Develop and implement an anesthesia care plan.
• Select, obtain, prepare, and use equipment, invasive and non-invasive monitors, supplies, and drugs for the administration of sedation, anesthesia, and pain management services; perform safety checks as needed.
• Select, order, obtain, and administer analgesic and anesthetic agents, adjuvant drugs, accessory drugs, fluids, or blood products necessary to provide anesthesia services.
• Perform all aspects of airway management.
• Facilitate emergence and recovery from anesthesia by evaluating patient response, and selecting, ordering, and administering medications, fluids, and ventilator support to maintain patient stability during transfer, take appropriate corrective action.
• Provide post anesthesia follow-up evaluation and care and discharge the patient from the post anesthesia care unit when needed.
• Manage emergency situations by assessing, stabilizing, and determining disposition of patients, including providing airway management, administration of emergency drugs and fluids, and using basic and advanced cardiac life support techniques.
• Place and manage regional anesthetic techniques, as delineated by clinical privileges or granted special privileges.
• Insert and manage peripheral, arterial, pulmonary catheter, or central venous lines and catheters as delineated by clinical privileges or granted special privileges.
• Demonstrate current competency in the clinical responsibilities specified.
• Perform clinically as a nurse anesthetist in the facility setting on a regular basis.
• Operate, use, and interpret data from a wide variety of equipment to perform anesthesia care as well as necessary perioperative or operating room care to support patient safety and wellbeing.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills to collaborate with various clinical staff and other disciplines.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the patient population(s) served.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and assess data reflective of the patient’s requirements relative to population-specific and age-specific needs.
• Knowledge of infection prevention and control techniques.
• Maintain confidential records.
• Implement and adhere to facility policies and procedures.

Qualifications

• Current active license for CRNA or CAA.