CRNA
The main focus of the CRNA job is to provide high-quality, evidence-based anesthesia and pain care services at all acuity levels, for all patients, and for a number of different reasons in a variety of settings:
characteristic job tasks and responsibilities:
- Performing comprehensive health histories and physicals
- Conducting pre-anesthesia evaluations
- Obtaining informed consents for anesthesia
- Overseeing the development of a patient plan of care
- Prescribing, and administering drugs and controlled substances (where permitted)
- Selecting/inserting both invasive and noninvasive monitoring modalities
- Providing acute, chronic, and interventional pain management services
- Providing critical care and resuscitation services
- Ordering and evaluating diagnostic tests
- Requesting consultations
- Performing point-of-care testing
- Planning and initiating anesthetic techniques, including general, regional, local and sedation
- Utilizing anesthetic techniques such as ultrasound, fluoroscopy, and other technologies to improve diagnosis and care delivery and improve patient safety and comfort
- Responding to emergency situations using airway management and other techniques
- Facilitating emergence and recovery from anesthesia
- Providing post-anesthesia care, including medication management
- Conducting post-anesthesia evaluations
- Performing discharge services
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