What are the responsibilities and job description for the Advanced Practice Provider- CRNA position at Yale New Haven Health?
**Advanced Practice Provider (APP) – CRNA at Yale New Haven Health
The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) - CRNA delivers exceptional anesthetic care in collaboration with medical and surgical teams.
This role emphasizes patient-centered care, professional development, and continuous quality management while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
The Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) must demonstrate strong communication skills, professionalism, and the ability to perform under pressure to maintain patient safety and well-being.
**Clinical Care:
- The CRNA implements accurate, safe, patient-centric anesthetic care.
- The CRNA ensures appropriate documentation within hospital and regulatory requirements.
**Quality Management:**
The CRNA demonstrates a high standard of moral and ethical behavior, professionalism, compassion, and commitment to patient care.
The CRNA continuously engages in projects that maintain and advance professional competency.
**Certification and Licensure:**
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Completion of Certified Nurse Anesthetist Training Program
Graduate of a Nurse Anesthesia Educational Program accredited by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Programs
Current State of Connecticut Nursing License, Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) licensure in the State of Connecticut
**Requirements:**
Prefer clinical working experience as a CRNA within the given specialty/service line recommended, but none required
APRNs, PAs, CRNAs, and CNMs are required to be appointed to the Affiliated Medical Staff of a YNHHS Hospital and credentialed through the Medical Staff process
Evidence of current competence to practice as {an APRN, PA, CRNA, CNM} via appropriate reference letters from physicians and other practitioners must be able to be obtained during the Medical Staff appointment process in order to be eligible
**Key Responsibilities:**
Delivering exceptional anesthetic care in collaboration with medical and surgical teams
Cultivating a patient-centric environment that focuses on the whole individual's physical, psychosocial, spiritual, and functional needs
Serving as the focal professional for continuity of care in patient care within scope of practice standards and specialty-specific standards to address and resolve problems that may arise
**Skills and Abilities:**
Sharp concentration and focus, along with the ability to stay calm under stressful conditions
Effective communication with surgeons and the surgical support team, patients, and their families
Demonstrating intellectual-conceptual, integrative, and quantitative abilities; sensory detection and interpretation of changes in monitoring alarms and equipment
Observing patients accurately at a distance and close
Communicating effectively, including speech, reading, and writing
Negotiating patient care environments and moving self/patients between anesthesia locations
Tolerating physically taxing workloads and functioning effectively under stress and adapting to changing environments, displaying flexibility, and learning to function in the face of uncertainties inherent in clinical problems
