Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist

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About the Facility – The Danville VAMC

This hospital provides primary care and specialty health services, including mental health care, women's health services, treatment for PTSD, podiatry, optometry, ophthalmology, cataract surgery, orthopedics, palliative and hospice care, physical medicine and rehabilitation, psychology, rehabilitation and extended care, surgery, and urology. Facility Address: 1900 E Main St Danville, IL 61832

Responsibilities

• Pre-anesthetic evaluation.
• Obtain an appropriate health history.
• Conduct an appropriate physical exam.
• Request pertinent diagnostic studies.
• Select, obtain, order, and administer pre-anesthetics medications.
• Obtain informed consent for anesthesia, anesthesia induction, maintenance, and emergence.
• Document the informed consent, along with the pre-anesthetic evaluation, in the electronic record system.
• Must be capable of working independently.
• Preoperative and Intra-operative Care.
• Obtain, prepare, and use all equipment, monitors, supplies, and drugs used for the administration of anesthesia, performing and ordering safety checks as needed.
• Select, obtain, or administer the anesthetics (General, Regional, MAC), adjuvant drugs, accessory drugs, fluids, and blood products necessary to manage the anesthetics.
• Perform all aspects of airway management.
• Perform BLS/ACLS management.
• Insert peripheral venous catheters.
• Perform and manage Bier Blocks.
• Provide appropriate non-invasive monitoring modalities utilizing current standards and techniques.
• Evaluate patient response during emergence from anesthesia and institute pharmacological or supportive treatment to insure patient stability during transfer.
• Postoperative Care.
• Provide post anesthesia follow up evaluation of the patient's response to anesthesia and surgical experience.
• Deliver a full report to the recovery room.
• Select and administer medication as necessary in the recovery room.
• Initiate and administer respiratory support to ensure adequate ventilation and oxygenation in the post-anesthesia period.
• Initiate and administer pharmacological or fluid support of the cardiovascular system during the post-anesthetics.
• Mortality and morbidity conferences as needed.
• Accept additional responsibilities which are within the expertise of the individual contract CRNA and are appropriate and relevant to the practice setting, as determined by the Medical Director and Specialty Service.

Qualifications

• Graduate from an approved School of Nursing and hold an unencumbered current state licensure as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse.
• Must have reserved a Board Certification.
• Shall have a current license to practice medicine in any State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States or the District of Columbia.
• Should have at least one full year (12 months) experience as a CRNA.

Terms

The period of performance shall be for a base period of one (1) year with two (2), six (6)-month options to extend.

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