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Form of workJOB SUMMARY: A Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) is an advanced practice registered nurse providing safe quality age appropriate anesthesia using established guidelines of clinical privileges approved by the Chair of Anesthesiology. The position is also a Clinical Instructor position and the CRNA directs, supervises, and evaluates Student Nurse Anesthetists.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: Registered nurse and completion of a nurse anesthesia educational program accredited by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, and/or REGISTRATION: Current RN license from the State of North Carolina. Currently certified or recertified by the National Board of Certification and Recertification for Nurse Anesthetists ACLS and BLS certifications
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 1. Ensures age/developmentally appropriate peri-operative and anesthesia care is provided in accordance with age-specific care guidelines for the specific age groups served and any present co-morbidities. 2. Supports patient safety, quality improvement and infection prevention when performing his or her job functions and through participation in facility and departmental initiatives. 3. Appropriately documents and maintains confidential records according to departmental and hospital standards. 4. Maintains flexibility with scheduling, promptness and readiness to provide patient care as needed. 5. Demonstrates professionalism through teamwork and collaboration and seeks ongoing professional educational growth. 6. Conserves resources to address cost containment.
SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: Ability to perform clinically as a nurse anesthetist by demonstrating competency in clinical responsibilities as delineated by his or her clinical privileges. Effective verbal and written communication skills are required to effectively collaborate with various clinical staff and other disciplines.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: Subject to highly stressful environment in the Operating Room or procedural areas Works with anesthetic gases Moderate to high noise environment Clean, well lit environment Cold or hot climates May require long clinical hours
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: 0% 35% 65% to to to 35% 65% 100% N/A Activity X Standing X Walking X Sitting X Bending X Reaching with arms X Finger and hand dexterity X Talking X Hearing X Seeing Lifting, carrying, pushing and or pulling: X 20 lbs. maximum X 50 lbs. maximum X 100 lbs. maximum
Mission- Generating and translating knowledge to prevent, diagnose and treat disease.
- Training leaders in health care and biomedical science.
- Serving as the premier health system in our region, with specific centers of excellence recognized as national and international care destination.
- Demonstrate the highest standards of patient-centered care, education, research and operational effectiveness
- Responsive to the physical, emotional, spiritual and intellectual needs of all
- Cultivate selfless contribution for the greater good
- Demonstrate fairness, honesty, sincerity and accountability
- Demonstrate respect for and inclusion of all backgrounds, identities, experiences, and perspectives
- Foster mutual respect, facilitate professional growth and mentorship, and reward teamwork and collaboration
- Promote creativity to enhance discovery and the application of knowledge
- Embrace a culture of reliability through better process design and accountability
- Keep you safe.
- Care for you.
- Involve you and your family.
- Respect you and your time.
Wake Forest Baptist Health and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.
This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.
Wake Forest Baptist Health (www.WakeHealth.edu) is a nationally recognized academic health system in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with an integrated enterprise including educational and research facilities, hospitals, clinics, diagnostic centers, and other primary and specialty care facilities serving 24 counties in northwest North Carolina and southwest Virginia.
It comprises: a regional clinical system with more than 300 locations, 2,100 physicians and 1,535 acute care beds; Wake Forest School of Medicine; and Wake Forest Innovations, which promotes the commercialization of research discoveries and operates Innovation Quarter, an urban research and business park specializing in biotechnology, materials science and information technology. Wake Forest Baptist's clinical, research and educational programs are consistently ranked among the best in the country.
