W‑2 full-time

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This role delivers anesthesia care to patients of every type and across all kinds of procedures, working alongside the supervising or medically directing physician and following the Department of Anesthesiology's standards and the hospital's policies. The nurse anesthetist induces insensitivity to pain during surgery and procedures, watches patients closely for their reactions to sedatives, analgesics, and anesthetic agents, and alerts the anesthesiologist to any condition that could endanger a patient. The position is based in a non-academic facility and calls for steady performance in a high-volume, fast-moving setting.

Qualifications include a current Registered Nurse license and APRN licensure as a Nurse Anesthetist in West Virginia, along with credentialing through the Council on Certification of Nurse Anesthetists, either initial or renewed.

Day-to-day responsibilities cover airway management using all standard adjuncts such as the Bullard scope, fiberoptic scope, and ILMA; infection prevention for patients and staff; joining the pre-anesthetic assessment and choice of agents and techniques; placing IV and invasive monitoring lines per protocol; intubating and extubating; drawing arterial blood for gas analysis; and managing induction, maintenance, and emergence for general, regional, and monitored anesthesia cases.

The nurse anesthetist also recognizes abnormal responses to anesthesia or medications and starts corrective action, orders added lab work when needed, gives resuscitative care, and manages patients in the immediate post-operative period. Other tasks include administering IV fluids and blood products (the latter after a hematocrit and discussion with the anesthesiologist), documenting in the anesthesia record, running equipment safety checks, and confirming consent and the surgical site through the SBAR process and surgical pause.

In a life-threatening emergency, the nurse anesthetist provides care without an anesthesiologist present. The role includes helping teach and evaluate new CRNAs, GRNAs, SRNAs, and medical students in the clinical area, and carries accountability for controlled substances under hospital, state, and federal rules.

The employer, University Health Associates, states it is an equal opportunity employer that bars discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics in all employment decisions.