Job Details
Job Location: Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital - Manistique, MI
Position Type: Full Time
Education Level: 4 Year Degree
Travel Percentage: None
Job Shift: Day
Job Posting Date(s)
Start Date: 04/30/2025
Description
POSITION SUMMARY: A Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) has the main responsibilities of administering anesthesia and monitoring patients throughout the surgical process including pre-anesthetic preparation and evaluation; anesthesia induction, maintenance, and emergence; post-anesthesia care; and peri-anesthetic/clinical support functions.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Pre-anesthetic Preparation and Evaluation:
- Obtains an appropriate health history
- Conducts an appropriate physical screening assessment
- Recommends or requests pertinent diagnostic studies.
- Selects, obtains, orders and administers pre-anesthetic medications.
- Documents the pre-anesthetic evaluation and obtains a comprehensive informed consent for anesthesia and related services.
- Intra-operative Care:
- Obtaining, preparing and using all equipment, monitors, supplies and drugs used for the administration of anesthesia and sedation techniques, performing and ordering safety checks as needed.
- Selects, obtains or administers the anesthetics, adjuvant drugs, accessory drugs, fluids and blood products necessary to manage the anesthetic.
- Performing all aspects of airway management, including fiber optic intubations.
- Performing and managing regional anesthetic techniques.
- Providing appropriate invasive and non-invasive monitoring modalities utilizing current standards and techniques.
- Recognizes abnormal patient response during anesthesia, selecting and implementing corrective action and requests consultation whenever necessary.
- Evaluates patient response during emergence from anesthesia and institutes pharmacological or supportive treatment to insure patient stability.
- Post-anesthesia Care:
- Provides post-anesthesia follow up and evaluation of the patient's response to anesthesia and surgical experience, taking appropriate corrective actions and requests consultation when indicated.
- Initiating and administering respiratory support to ensure adequate ventilation and oxygen in the post-anesthesia period.
- Initiating and administering pharmacological or fluid support of the cardiovascular system during the post-anesthesia period to prevent morbidity and mortality.
- Initiating acute post-anesthesia pain management techniques.
- Discharging patients from a post-anesthesia care area according to policy.
- Clinical Support Functions:
- Inserting arterial catheters and performing arterial puncture to obtain arterial blood samples.
- Managing emergency situations, including initiating or participating in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- Providing consultation and implementation of respiratory and ventilatory care.
- Management of interventional pain therapy utilizing drugs, regional anesthetic techniques or other accepted pain relief modalities.
- Using consultation appropriate, selecting, obtaining, ordering and/or administering medications or treatments related to the care of the patient.
- Accepting additional responsibilities which are within the expertise of the CRNA.
- Special Requests:
- Diagnostic and therapeutic injections with or without fluoroscopic guidance; including epidural, spinal, facet joint, selective nerve and sympathetic blocks.
NON-CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Administrative/management:
- Scheduling, material and supply management
- Supervision of staff, students or ancillary personnel
- Development of policies and procedures
- Fiscal management, preventative maintenance and billing and data management.
- Quality assessment:
- Data collection, reporting mechanism, trending, compliance, committee meetings, departmental review, problem-focused studies, problem solving, interventions, documentation and process oversight.
- Educational:
- Performs clinical and didactic teaching, in-services and facility continuing education.
- Maintains knowledge of current scientific theories, principles and techniques related to the field of anesthesia and its current practice.
- Committee appointments:
- Assignment to committees, committee responsibilities, coordination of committee activities.
- Interdepartmental liaison:
- Interface with other departments such as nursing, surgery, outpatient surgery, pharmacy, etc.
- Member of AANA (American Association of Nurse Anesthetists).
- Demonstrate appropriateness in meeting objectives in age-specifics.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing.
- Graduate from a program of master's degree nurse anesthesia education accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs.
- Minimum of 5 years of work experience as a CRNA
- Current MI Licensure as a registered professional nurse.
- Current MI Licensure as a registered nurse anesthetist.
- Current NBCRNA (National Board of Certification and Recertification of Nurse Anesthetists) Certification.
- Current BLS, ACLS and PALS certifications.