W‑2 part-time

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The position provides anesthetic care to patients of all types undergoing every kind of procedure, working alongside the supervising or medically directing physician and following hospital policies. The CRNA administers anesthesia so that patients feel no pain during surgery or procedures, and keeps constant watch on each patient's response to sedatives, analgesics, and anesthetic agents, alerting the surgeon or anesthesiologist to any adverse change that could threaten safety.

Qualifications include a current registered nurse license in West Virginia or in whichever state the services are delivered, along with board certification or recertification from the National Board of Certification and Recertification for Nurse Anesthetists.

Core responsibilities cover patient safety at all times, skilled airway management with familiarity across airway adjuncts such as the Bullard scope, fiberoptic scope, and ILMA, and practicing within delineated clinical privileges. The role also includes infection precautions, confidentiality, participating in pre-anesthetic evaluations and choosing agents and techniques, and performing procedures such as IV and invasive monitoring line placement, intubation and extubation, and arterial punctures for blood gas analysis.

The CRNA manages induction, maintenance, and emergence for general, regional, and monitored anesthesia cases, recognizes and treats abnormal responses, orders additional labs when needed, and provides resuscitation and immediate postoperative management. Other duties include IV fluid administration, blood product transfusion after a hematocrit and consultation with the surgeon or anesthesiologist, accurate anesthesia charting, equipment and supply checks, verification of consent and surgical site through briefings and the surgical pause, and controlled substance accountability under hospital, state, and federal rules. The CRNA may also cover anesthesia alone during a life-threatening emergency when no anesthesiologist is present and helps teach and evaluate newly hired CRNAs, student registered nurse anesthetists, and graduate registered nurse anesthetists.

Physical and working conditions call for close-range visual detail, calm performance under high stress, reliability, adaptability to change and variety, and cooperative work with colleagues of differing backgrounds. The environment involves exposure to infectious patients and hazardous compounds and medications, strict standardized safety practices, possible back strain when moving patients, and the possibility of on-call duty, nights, weekends, or holidays.

The position is listed as exempt, with a scheduled weekly hours figure of 0 shown on the posting, and is based at a medical park address in Bridgeport, West Virginia, within the SMG Anesthesia group of the West Virginia University Health System.