W‑2 full-time

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The practice seeks a CRNA to provide anesthesia care for patients undergoing all types of procedures, working alongside a supervising or medically directing physician and following hospital policies. The role involves rendering patients insensitive to pain during surgery or procedures, and continuously watching each patient's response to sedatives, analgesics and anesthetic agents, alerting the surgeon or anesthesiologist to any adverse condition that could threaten safety.

Candidates need a current Registered Nurse license in West Virginia or the state where services will be performed, along with board certification or recertification from the National Board of Certification and Recertification for Nurse Anesthetists.

Core responsibilities include safeguarding patient safety at all times, managing airways with familiarity in airway adjuncts such as bullard scopes, fiberoptic scopes and ILMAs, and working within delineated clinical privileges. The CRNA joins in pre-anesthetic evaluation, selects agents and techniques, places intravenous and invasive monitoring catheters, performs intubation and extubation, and draws arterial blood for gas analysis. The position also manages induction, maintenance and emergence for general, regional and monitored cases, handles post-operative evaluation, administers fluids and blood products, and documents patient status.

Further duties cover checking anesthesia equipment and supplies before care begins, verifying consent and the surgical site during briefings and the surgical pause, communicating across the perioperative team, and providing anesthesia during life-threatening emergencies when no anesthesiologist is present. The CRNA also helps teach and evaluate newly hired CRNAs, GRNAs and SRNAs, and is accountable for controlled substances under hospital, state and federal rules.

The job is full-time at 40 scheduled hours per week and is classified as exempt. The work is based at a hospital in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and the posting notes the CRNA may be required to take call or work nights, weekends and holidays. The environment involves exposure to infectious patients and hazardous substances, strict safety protocols, and possible back strain from moving patients. The role calls for close-range visual detail, calm composure under high stress, reliability, and adaptability.