Advanced Practice Nurse (Certified Nurse Anesthetist)

Advanced Practice Certified Nurse Anesthetist

The primary duties of the Advanced Practice Certified Nurse Anesthetists may include but are not limited to:

• Collaborating with a variety of health care professionals to achieve common goals for care, safety, and welfare of patients.
• Fostering high levels of confidence and satisfaction among patients and staff, as well as meet and exceed compliance standards.
• Providing anesthetic services within five general categories to include: pre-anesthesia evaluation and preparation; anesthesia induction, maintenance, and emergence; post anesthesia care; peri-anesthetic and clinical support functions; and emergency response techniques.
• Developing and implementing a comprehensive anesthesia plan of care for patients requiring local, regional, general, and monitored anesthesia both inside and outside the Operating Room (OR) suite.
• Ensuring anesthetic services delivered throughout the facility are of the highest quality to promote patient safety, satisfaction, and improve outcomes and efficiencies.
• Functioning as resource for staff education and is willing to be a preceptor and adjunct clinical faculty for health care trainees rotating through the facility.
• Developing and implements evidence-based practices that are essential to the delivery of the highest quality anesthesia care.
• Prescribing appropriate preoperative, intra-operative and postoperative orders and medications.
• Exemplifying the ICARE core values of integrity, commitment, advocacy, respect, and excellence.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards

Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards

Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 6:00 am - 3:00 pm, subject to change based on the needs of the facility

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized