Nurse Anesthetist - CRNA (770)

JOB SUMMARY: A Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) is an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) who practices both autonomously and in collaboration with a variety of health providers on the interprofessional team to deliver high-quality, holistic, evidence-based anesthesia and pain care services. The CRNA 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.

QUALIFICATIONS:

JOB SPECIFIC CORE COMPETENCIES

• Perform a comprehensive history and physical examination, assessment, and evaluation preprocedural and preoperative.
• Implement a patient specific plan of care which may involve anesthetic techniques such as general, regional, and local anesthesia, sedation, and multimodal pain management.
• Conduct post anesthesia evaluation.
• Collaborate with the patient and variety of healthcare professionals in order to provide patient centered high-quality, evidence-based care.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manages patients’ airway or pulmonary status using techniques such as endotracheal intubation and extubation, mechanical ventilation, pharmacological support, and respiratory therapy.
• Selects, prepares, or uses equipment, monitors, supplies, or drugs for the administration of anesthetics.
• Selects, orders, and administers anesthetics, accessory drugs, fluids, or blood products.
• Performs pre-anesthetic screenings including physical evaluations and patient interviews, and documents results.
• Monitors patients’ responses including skin color, pupil dilation, pulse, heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, ventilation, or urine output using invasive and noninvasive techniques.
• Responds to emergency situations by providing airway management, administering emergency fluids or drugs, or using basic or advanced cardiac life support techniques.
• Develops anesthesia care plans.
• Obtains informed consent from patients for anesthesia procedures.
• Assesses patients’ medical histories to predict anesthesia response.
• Performs and evaluates the results of diagnostic tests such as radiographs (x-rays) and electrocardiograms (EKGs).
• Performs or manages regional anesthetic techniques such as local, spinal, epidural, caudal, nerve blocks.
• Evaluates patients’ post-surgical or post-anesthesia responses, taking appropriate corrective actions or requesting consultation if complications occur.
• Administers post-anesthesia medications or fluids to support patients’ cardiovascular systems.
• Discharges patients from post-anesthesia care.
• Reads literature, talks with colleagues, and participates in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in nursing.
• Provides education to the clinical team on anesthesia care, complications, and emergency responses.
• Reports adverse events and near misses to appropriate management authority.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills are required to effectively collaborate with various clinical staff and other disciplines.

EXPECTED BEHAVIORS:

• Functions professionally under stressful or emergency conditions.
• Able to manage conflict.
• Utilizes effective communication-verbal, non-verbal, written. Active listener.
• Promotes Patients First Behaviors.
• Ability to interpret, evaluate and communicate detailed written or verbal instructions to others accurately and quickly, including answering phones, attending meetings, written correspondence or other forms of communication.
• Ability to communicate effectively.