W-2 full-time

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This leadership role oversees the nurse anesthetist service, including recruiting, onboarding and keeping anesthetist staff, building staffing models and work schedules, and shaping clinical workflows that keep care efficient and safe. The position also works with anesthesiologists, surgeons and nursing colleagues to coordinate care, helps plan budgets and allocate resources, and sets protocols and performance standards that the team follows.

In direct patient care, the role covers anesthesia from pre-operative evaluation through intra-operative and post-operative periods. The incumbent designs individualized care plans based on each patient's history, surgical needs and risk, leads management of high-risk patients, emergencies and complex anesthetic cases, and explains plans, risks and expected recovery to patients and their families. Culturally responsive, patient-centered care is expected throughout.

The position drives documentation quality and continuous improvement. It ensures anesthesia records are accurate, timely and complete, prepares survey and audit readiness activities and the procedures behind them, assesses and adopts new anesthesia technology, and reviews outcomes, satisfaction results and complication rates to recommend workflow changes.

Regulatory compliance and quality work include partnering with department leadership to follow institutional policy, state rules and national standards from bodies such as the AANA, ASA and The Joint Commission. The role adopts evidence-based protocols, safety checklists and infection control steps, runs quality assurance efforts including case reviews and audits, and takes part in peer review.

Staff development is a central duty. The leader mentors and trains anesthesia staff, arranges continuing education, guides case discussions that build a learning culture, and gives performance feedback and coaching. Coordinating clinical rotations for anesthesia students from accredited programs may also be part of the role.

Day-to-day management includes turning business plans into action items, setting team goals, tracking progress, resolving escalated issues, removing obstacles and creating contingency plans. The leader delegates appropriately, keeps the team current on industry trends and organizational change, and encourages open dialogue across teams.