9.5-hour shifts

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The Bronx, New York position is a day-shift role in the Department of Anesthesiology, Monday through Friday, from 7 AM to 5:30 PM, with 9.5 scheduled hours per day. The CRNA provides general and regional anesthesia to patients under the direction of an attending anesthesiologist and also delivers preoperative anesthesia care in the Pre-Anesthesia Assessment Center, working alongside that attending.

Core duties include readying the anesthesia cart, supplies, and machine before cases; requisitioning, preparing, and labeling perioperative medications; performing preoperative evaluations; placing intravenous access; and applying required patient monitoring. The role also covers thorough, legible charting of anesthesia records, pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions, and controlled-substance counts, along with giving patient handoffs to PACU nurses, keeping the operating room and anesthesia areas clean and safe, and alerting anesthesia technicians to equipment problems or supply needs.

Applicants need a DNP or DNAP from a nurse anesthesia program accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs, current NBCRNA certification, and BLS and ACLS certifications. The position is covered by the NYSNA bargaining unit and carries a listed hourly rate of $131.28, which may vary with shift differential, experience, education, or other factors.

Benefits described include union coverage, pay differentials for years of RN and CRNA experience and for graduate degrees, paid vacation, sick days, and holidays, medical, dental, and vision insurance, maternity and paternity leave, a hospital-sponsored NYSNA pension at no cost to the CRNA, an optional 403(b), flexible spending accounts, life and disability insurance, and 100% tuition reimbursement. The posting also describes a schedule with no weekends, no holidays, no call, and no nights, plus parking and purchase discounts and opportunities to teach and mentor CRNAs.