Certified Nurse Anesthetist - Chief

Summary

VA Puget Sound Healthcare System is a Level 1 major interdisciplinary teaching healthcare system with 2 divisions & multiple community-based outpatient clinics (CBOC). It is considered the most complex VA healthcare system nationwide. VAPSHCS has Emergency services & a full complement of specialty medical - surgical - psychiatric - critical care - & rehabilitation service-lines.

Duties

• Duties include but are not limited to: Collaborate with a variety of health care professionals to achieve common goals for care - safety - and welfare of patients
• Foster high levels of confidence and satisfaction among patients and staff - as well as meet and exceed compliance standards
• Provide anesthetic services within five general categories to include: pre-anesthesia evaluation and preparation
• anesthesia induction - maintenance - and emergence
• post anesthesia care
• peri-anesthetic and clinical support functions
• and emergency response techniques
• Develops and implements a comprehensive anesthesia plan of care for patients requiring local - regional - general - and monitored anesthesia both inside and outside the Operating Room (OR) suite
• Ensures anesthetic services delivered throughout the facility are of the highest quality to promote patient safety - satisfaction - and improve outcomes and efficiencies
• Functions as resource for staff education and is willing to be a preceptor and adjunct clinical faculty for health care trainees rotating through the VAMC
• Develops and implements evidence-based practices that are essential to the delivery of the highest quality anesthesia care
• Prescribe appropriate preoperative - intra-operative and postoperative orders and medications
• Makes recommendations that may significantly affect the content - interpretation or development of VA policies or programs concerning critical matters or major issues within the anesthesia arena
• First line supervisor and administrative responsibility for nurse anesthesia staff (i.e. - performance reviews - Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE) and Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations (OPPE) - peer review)
• Administrative responsibility may extend to other healthcare professionals within the department
• Exemplifies the ICARE core values of-Integrity - Commitment - Advocacy - Respect - and Excellence
• Preferred Specialized Experience: Ability to assume progressive responsibility for planning organizing - directing - and evaluating section and departmental processes and programs
• Ability to supervise staff - students - or ancillary personnel and to ensure proper scheduling and staffing
• Ability to provide guidance and instruction in preparing others for positions of leadership and ethical practices which impact patient care
• Knowledge to engage in departmental resource stewardship - evaluation of staffing - equipment - and time value management
• Ability to interpret efficiency data as well as implement and evaluate cost-effective operational strategies
• Ability to prioritize and delegate tasks to enhance employee investment offering opportunities for staff leadership development
• VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards Pay: Competitive salary - regular salary increases - potential for performance awards Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave - 13 days of sick leave - 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00a.m
• - 4:30p.m
• Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position
• Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Uniform Allowance: Not Authorized