Job Description

Job Description

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist

Job Responsibilities and Duties

Certified registered nurse anesthetist monitors anesthesia care, perform preoperative preparations and evaluations, manage patient anesthesia experience, administer Spinal, local Bier Block, general anesthetics and Auxiliary Block, monitor patient reactions to surgery and anesthesia, manage fluid therapy, and perform several post-operative evaluations. Other job responsibilities and duties include:

Advices supervising anesthesiologist of undesirable reactions necessitating non-delegated medical decisions; take appropriate actions as required or directed.

Maintains all records of patients as required at MTF.

Ensures maintenance and cleanliness of anesthesia equipment (Andrews, 2007).

Serves as a resource person and helps in the training of other staff workers of hospital, act as clinical adjunctive faculty for student anesthetists in their clinical phase, to include phase two anesthesia students, in intravenous and vain puncture therapy, anesthesia and respiratory care.

Indicates responsibility for the correctness and contents of all prepared reports and forms by affixing his or her signature to the required documents and validating their contents.

Selecting, managing and implementing general anesthesia, regional anesthesia modalities and monitored anesthesia care including administering anesthetic and other related pharmaceutical agents, consistent with the needs and procedural requirements of client.

Providing perianesthetic non-invasive and invasive monitoring, implementing corrective action, recognizing abnormal findings and requesting consultation with proper experienced health care providers as necessary.

Managing airway and pulmonary status of patient using practice modalities. (John, Karen, 2001)

Facilitating recovery and emergence from anesthesia by obtaining, selecting, ordering and administering medications, ventilator support and fluids.

Providing post-anesthesia follow-up care and evaluation and discharging patient from a post-anesthesia care area.

Implementing chronic and acute pain management modalities.

Responding to urgent situation situations by providing airway management, administration of emergency drugs and fluids, and using advanced or basic cardiac life support techniques.

Additional nurse anesthetist responsibilities and duties, which are within the expertise of the individual nurse anesthetist include:

Management and administration: scheduling, material and supply management, supervision of students, staff or ancillary personnel, development of procedures and policies, performance evaluations, preventative maintenance, billing and data management and fiscal management. (Laura, 1996)

Quality assessment: reporting mechanism, data collection, trending, committee meetings, compliance, departmental review, problem solving, problem focused studies, interventions, process and documents over sight.

Educational: didactic and clinical teaching, ACLS and BCLS instruction, in-service commitment, supervision of residents, facility continuing education and EMT training.

Research: Participating and conducting in departmental, university-sponsored and hospital-wide, research projects.

Committee appointments: different assignment to committees, coordination of committee activities and committee responsibilities. (Laura, 1996)

Interdepartmental connection: interface with ...