CRNA

Overview

PRN CRNA Position • $170/Hour • Flexible Scheduling

LifeLinc Anesthesia is seeking skilled Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) to join our team at Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Jefferson City, TN. This opportunity offers flexible scheduling, highly competitive compensation packages, and a collaborative clinical environment where CRNAs practice with meaningful autonomy while delivering safe, efficient, and high-quality anesthesia care.

About the Facilities

Jefferson Memorial Hospital serves Lakeway area residents combining technology and a caring, East Tennessee spirit. The hospital's Jefferson City campus was opened in 2001, and the facility underwent a major construction project in 2011 that included renovation and expansion of the emergency room, a new intensive care unit and enhancements to waiting and registration areas.

Jefferson Memorial Hospital offers quality patient care with:

• Advanced technology and equipment
• Doctors trained in specialty areas such as pulmonology, orthopedics and cardiology
• Extensive outpatient surgery capabilities and diagnostic testing

Schedule: Monday through Friday 7am to 3pm with call, as needed

Case Mix: General, Ortho, ENT, Peds

Call Requirements: 1:5 Call

Benefits: Those W2 Full Time employees working 30 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits. This position is not eligible for benefits.

Responsibilities

Administrative Duties:

• The CRNA must function as a collaborator and team member to accomplish applicable goals and functions of LifeLinc.
• Develop standards for continuity of care and case management.
• Remain cognizant of rules and regulation as they pertain to the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists and remains compliant at a local, state, and federal level.

Clinical Duties:

The CRNA scope of practice includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Performing and timely and accurately documenting a pre-anesthetic assessment and patient evaluations, including requesting consultations and diagnostic studies; selecting, obtaining, ordering, or administering pre-anesthetic medications and fluids; and obtaining informed consent for anesthesia.
• The day-to-day responsibility of the CRNA for this position will be to provide professional anesthesia services to patients in accordance with the standard of care and state and federal laws and may include any of all of the following:
• Managing a patient's airway.
• Managing emergence and recovery from anesthesia.
• Releasing or discharging patients from a post-anesthesia care area, and providing post-anesthesia follow-up evaluation and care related to anesthesia side effects or complications.
• Responding to emergency situations by providing airway management, administration of emergency fluids or drugs, or using basic or advanced cardiac life support techniques.
• Additional nurse anesthesia responsibilities which are within the expertise of the individual CRNA.

Communication:

• Attends meetings as needed
• Works with peers to obtain required information on a timely basis and to solve outstanding issues, as appropriate.
• Promotes and contributes positively to the teamwork of the department by assisting coworkers, contributing ideas and problem-solving with co-workers.

Qualifications

Education and experience equivalent to:

The Nurse Anesthetist shall be a Graduate of an approved school of nursing and a graduate of a nurse anesthesia educational program accredited by the AANA Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs or its predecessor. The CRNA will have successfully completed the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) Council on Certification or its predecessor's.

Additional Qualifications

• At least two years of independent experience
• ACLS/BLS/PALS certification