Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist

CRNA – Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist

The Gateway to the Navajo Nation The Location – Navajo Nation Navajo Area Indian Health Services administers health centers, and hospitals, providing health care to approximately 201,516 members of the Navajo Nation. The Navajo Nation is the largest Native tribe in the United States and has the largest reservation, which encompasses more than 25,516 square miles in northern Arizona, western New Mexico, and southern Utah, with three satellite communities in central New Mexico. The NAIHS is the primary provider of inpatient, ambulatory care, preventive and community health, and environmental health services for members of the Navajo Nation and the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe. Explore the Navajo Nation Gallup Indian Medical Center Gallup Indian Medical Center (GIMC) is a 78-bed hospital in Gallup, New Mexico, on the border of the Navajo Reservation. Clinical specialties at GIMC include Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Anesthesia, OB/GYN, General Surgery, Orthopedics, Ophthalmology, ENT, Radiology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Emergency Medicine, and Urology. The workload at Gallup is one of the largest in the Indian Health Service with 310,000 outpatient encounters and 4,400 inpatient admissions annually. GIMC has the largest staff of all Navajo Area Client facilities.

Responsibilities

• Attend outpatient clinic sessions, evaluating patient complaints, making diagnoses, designing treatment plans, educating the patient and family about their condition and initiating care.
• Perform general anesthesia for elective, urgent and emergent cases. Provide sedation to include: minimal, moderate, and deep sedation.
• Provide anesthesia to include: neuraxial (epidural and spinal) and extremity blocks. Provide anesthesia services for all age groups and degrees of disability to include trauma.
• Prepares prescriptions accurately following federal and UP Public Health Service Laws and Policies. CRNA agrees to assure appropriateness of drug therapy.
• The Anesthesiologist/CRNA will assure that drug therapy is safe, efficacious, and cost-effective. Standards of care developed and adopted by the professional staff of the facility shall be the criteria for appropriateness of drug therapy.
• The Anesthesiologist/CRNA shall screen the patient health record to avoid inappropriate drug interactions and monitor patients for the appropriateness of therapy.

Requirements

• Must have twelve months of anesthesia experience with twelve months in the specialty required
• All anesthesia providers shall be Board Certified and possess a current, valid, unrestricted license in a state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico or a Territory of the United States
• The following certifications must be maintained during employment: BLS, PALS, ACLS