Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist

Crna Position

Position Summary: The CRNA is responsible for assessing patients, developing individualized anesthesia care plans, administering anesthesia, monitoring patients intraoperatively, and managing recovery from anesthesia. This role ensures safe, effective, and compassionate care while upholding the highest standards of clinical practice.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct pre-anesthesia assessments, including patient history, physical examination, and review of diagnostic data.
• Develop and implement anesthesia care plans tailored to patient needs and surgical requirements.
• Administer general, regional, and monitored anesthesia care in a variety of clinical settings.
• Monitor patients' vital signs, depth of anesthesia, and physiologic status during procedures.
• Respond to emergency situations and provide airway management, resuscitation, and critical care support as needed.
• Ensure safe emergence from anesthesia and provide post-anesthesia care, including pain management.
• Collaborate with surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and other members of the care team.
• Educate patients and families about anesthesia procedures, risks, and recovery expectations.
• Maintain accurate and timely documentation in patient records.

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Qualifications

Maintains current certification as CRNA. Masters degree preferred. New graduates must be certified as soon as possible.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Must be able to communicate verbally and in writing.

Job duties involve the potential for frequent exposure to blood and body fluids.

The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Must be able to walk, stand, stoop, kneel and assist in lifting patients; able to assist patients and/or adjust equipment at floor level; able to reach, change and read IV's 5 feet from the floor unaided; able to move quickly from place to place on occasion, including from floor to floor in emergency situations; able to utilize fine motor control in hands for tasks such as medication preparation and administration; able to hear to take blood pressure and to hear breath, heart and bowel sounds. Must possess visual acuity to meet visual demands in charting, intubating and operating equipment.

• Must be able to work under stress and to adapt to changing conditions. Is expected to be an example of good health habits.
• Ability to adhere to strict confidentiality requirements.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to assist an otherwise qualified individual in the performance of the job. In order to meet the needs of the Company employees may be assigned other duties, in addition to or in lieu of those described above.

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