Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist-Intermittent

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards The CRNA collaborates with anesthesiologists, surgeons, proceduralists, nurses, and other members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team to ensure safe, effective, evidence-based, and Veteran-centered care. The position requires sound clinical judgment in managing patients with varying levels of medical complexity and responding appropriately to changes in patient condition and perioperative emergencies. Duties include:

• Performs comprehensive pre-anesthesia assessments, including review of the Veteran's medical history, medications, allergies, laboratory and diagnostic results, physical status, and surgical/procedural needs.
• Develops individualized anesthesia plans of care based on the patient's condition, procedure, risk factors, and clinical needs.
• Provides anesthesia services for inpatient and outpatient surgical and procedural patients.
• Administers and manages general, regional, local, intravenous, and monitored anesthesia care/sedation, within the provider's approved scope of practice and clinical privileges.
• Performs anesthesia induction, maintenance, emergence, and recovery while continuously assessing the patient's physiologic response.
• Selects and administers appropriate anesthetic agents, analgesics, adjunct medications, intravenous fluids, and other medications necessary for safe anesthesia care.
• Establishes and maintains appropriate non-invasive and invasive monitoring to continuously evaluate cardiovascular, respiratory, neurologic, and other physiologic parameters.
• Performs and manages airway assessment and management, including intubation, ventilation, extubation, and emergency airway interventions as clinically indicated.
• Recognizes and promptly manages changes in the patient's condition, anesthesia-related complications, and other perioperative emergencies.
• Provides emergency response, including airway management, resuscitation, and BLS/ACLS interventions when required.
• Provides post-anesthesia care, including assessment of recovery from anesthesia, pain management, nausea and vomiting management, hemodynamic stability, and appropriate disposition.
• Performs post-anesthesia follow-up and evaluates patients for complications or additional anesthesia-related needs.
• Provides anesthesia services both inside and outside the operating room, as appropriate to the facility's services and the CRNA's clinical privileges.
• Collaborates with anesthesiologists, surgeons, proceduralists, nurses, and other interdisciplinary healthcare professionals to promote safe, coordinated, Veteran-centered care.
• Functions as a member of the anesthesia care team and contributes to perioperative decision-making based on education, experience, competency, and scope of practice.
• Prescribes or orders appropriate preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative medications and treatments when authorized by applicable VA policy, state licensure, and clinical privileges.
• Maintains accurate and timely documentation of anesthesia assessments, care plans, medications, procedures, monitoring, interventions, and patient outcomes.

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

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

Work Schedule: Not to Exceed one-year; intermittent schedule

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

EDRP: Not Authorized