UCLA Health

Comprehensive health system with top hospitals

Nurse Anesthetist

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Full-timeCalifornia, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A valid California registered nurse (RN) license and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) license are required.
Graduation from an accredited Master's or Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program in Nurse Anesthesia is required.
Current certification or recertification by the National Board of Certification & Recertification for Nurse Anesthetists is required.
Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certifications from the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross (ARC) are required.
Knowledge of current nursing, anesthesia, and critical care techniques is required.
Ability to perform thorough preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative assessments and formulate a safe anesthesia care plan is required.
Skill in performing preoperative assessments of surgical and nonsurgical patients, including identifying pre-existing diseases and their potential impact on anesthesia care; documenting medical history, physical examination, laboratory tests, electrocardiogram, and chest X-ray; understanding interactions between preoperative drug therapy and the proposed anesthetic plan and agents for all age groups; identifying examination abnormalities that may pose anesthesia-management problems; and understanding medical indications for delaying elective surgery or requesting preoperative specialty consultation is required.
Ability to explain the proposed anesthetic technique, alternatives, risks, and problems, and obtain documented legal informed consent before administering anesthesia is required.
Ability to document significant information completely to create an anesthesia record of preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative events is required.
Skill in determining safe airway management and interpreting physiological monitoring is required, including interpreting electrocardiogram, blood pressure, vital signs, pulmonary capillary wedge pressure, and systemic vascular resistance data and adjusting interventions to optimize patient safety for all age groups.
Ability to safely insert venous and arterial monitoring lines and devices under the medical direction of an anesthesiologist is required.
Knowledge of pharmacology, dosage, side effects, and contraindications of drugs used in anesthesia practice at UCLA is required.
Skill in performing monitored anesthesia care (MAC), regional, and general anesthesia techniques commonly used at UCLA across all age categories is required.
Ability to recognize return of consciousness and reflexes indicating safe emergence from anesthesia, transport the patient to the recovery room, and provide an informed report to qualified medical personnel assuming care is required.
Knowledge of current clinical and theoretical education and research techniques, evidenced by experience, academic credentials, degree, and license, is required.
The final candidate who accepts an offer must disclose any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining misconduct, or any appeal filed regarding a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.
Current and former University of California employees are subject to a personnel file review.

Responsibilities

Perform preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative patient assessments and formulate a safe anesthesia care plan.
Assess surgical and nonsurgical patients before surgery, evaluate medical history and examination findings, review relevant tests and drug therapy, and identify circumstances requiring a delay of elective surgery or specialty consultation.
Explain anesthesia techniques, alternatives, risks, and problems, and obtain documented informed consent before administering anesthesia.
Document preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative events in the anesthesia record.
Determine safe airway management, interpret physiological monitoring data, and adjust interventions to optimize patient safety.
Insert venous and arterial monitoring lines and devices under an anesthesiologist's medical direction.
Perform monitored anesthesia care, regional anesthesia, and general anesthesia for all age categories.
Recognize safe emergence from anesthesia, transport patients to the recovery room, and provide an informed handoff to qualified medical personnel.

Required: Knowledge of current nursing, anesthesia and critical care techniques as evidenced by the following:

Valid California RN and CRNA license- required

Graduated from an accredited Master's or DNP program in Nurse Anesthesia -required

Current certification/re-certification by the National Board of Certification & Recertification for Nurse Anesthetists -required

BLS and ACLS certifications from AHA or ARC -required

Required: Ability to perform thorough pre, intra-operative, and post-operative assessments and formulate safe anesthesia care plan.

Required: Skill in performing pre-operative assessment of surgical and non-surgical patients, including:

a. Identification of pre-existing disease entities and their potential impact upon anesthesia care and plan documentation of past medical history, physical examination, laboratory tests, ECG and chest X-ray

b. Understanding interactions of pre-operative drug therapy with proposed anesthetic plan and agents for all age groups

c. Identification of abnormalities on physical examination which pose potential problems in anesthesia management

d. Understanding the medical indications for delay of elective surgery and for pre-operative specialty consultation

Required: Ability to explain the proposed anesthetic technique, alternatives, risks and problems, thus obtaining proper documented legal informed consent prior to the administration of anesthesia.

Required: Ability to properly and completely document significant information to form an anesthesia record of pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative events.

Required: Skill in determining safe airway management and interpretation of physiological monitoring. Ability to interpret physiological data (ECG, BP, vital signs,PCWP, SVR) and adjust intervention to optimize patient safety in all age groups.

Required: Ability to safely insert venous and arterial monitoring lines and devices under medical direction of anesthesiologist.

Required: Knowledge of pharmacology, dosage, side effects and contraindications of all drugs currently employed in anesthesia practice atUCLA.

Required: Skill in performing all techniques of MAC, regional and generalanesthesia commonly employed at UCLA for all age categories

Required: Ability to recognize return of consciousness and reflexes signaling safe emergence from anesthesia,transport of patient to recovery room and informed report to qualified medical personnel who will assume care of the patient

Required: Knowledge of current clinical and theoretical education and research techniques as evidenced by experience, academic credential degree, and license.

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.

Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.

About the Company

UCLA Health

Comprehensive health system with top hospitals

UCLA Health is a large, integrated healthcare system in Los Angeles that operates multiple hospitals and a wide network of primary- and specialty-care clinics. It provides medical services across many fields—from organ transplantation and cardiac surgery to neurosurgery and cancer treatment—and combines patient care with biomedical research. Its hospitals and physicians diagnose and treat complex illnesses and bring the latest medical discoveries into practice. UCLA Health stands out because it runs a comprehensive, highly ranked set of facilities (including Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital) and emphasizes leading research, education, and specialized care across a broad regional network. The organization aims to deliver high-quality medical care while advancing medical knowledge and sharing new treatments with patients locally and globally.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: Grant
Total funding: $25.3M
Headquarters: Santa Monica, CA
Founded: 1955

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