Advanced Practice Nurse (Certified Nurse Anesthetist)

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Job Summary

This job is open to Duties Requirements How you will be evaluated Required documents How to apply

Job Summary

This is an open continuous announcement. Applications received within 20 days will receive first consideration. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis and qualified candidates will be considered as vacancies arise.

Duties

Help The Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist is a specialty-trained registered nurse who administers anesthesia to patients who are undergoing surgeries or special procedures. Duties include but 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, including 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 a resource for staff education and is willing to be a preceptor and adjunct clinical faculty for health care trainees rotating through the facility.
• Develops and implements evidence-based practices that are essential to the delivery of the highest quality anesthesia care.
• Prescribes appropriate preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative orders and medications.
• Exemplifies the ICARE core values of:
• Integrity
• Commitment
• Advocacy
• Respect
• Excellence

Requirements

Help Conditions of employment: As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 2-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.

Additional Requirements:

• U.S. Citizenship, non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
• English Language Proficiency.
• In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7402f, no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12311959.
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
• Acceptable forms of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements.
• Effective May 7, 2025, drivers licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).

Education and Experience Requirements

Help Education:

• A masters or doctoral degree in nurse anesthesia.
• Applicants pending the completion of educational requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until the education requirements are met.
• Nursing education must be from a school of professional nursing anesthesia accredited by Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Education Programs (COA) at the time the program was completed by the applicant.

Licensure and Certification:

• The following licensure and certification requirements are considered conditions of employment:
• License: All APN CNAs must maintain an active current full and unrestricted license to practice as a CNA or equivalent in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States or in the District of Columbia.
• Basic Certification: All APN CNAs must maintain full and current certification by the National Board of Certification and Recertification for Nurse Anesthetists (NBCRNA) or an equivalent Nurse Anesthetist certification recognized by the COA.

How You Will Be Evaluated

Help IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE MAY NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Your application resume, CV, and/or supporting documentation will be verified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect consideration for employment.

Required Documents

Help To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Application Package which includes:

• Resume
• Special Note for Applications: To complete your application, please use the following link http://www.va.gov/ohrms/QualificationStandards to download the standard Clinical Resume Document. This one-page document does not need to be modified and must be uploaded into the two-page restricted Resume document upload field.
• Your full resume, CV may be uploaded without page limitation into the Other document upload field.
• The following documents are accepted and may be required if applicable to your eligibility and/or qualifications for this position. Please ensure you have included all documents required for your application, such as a copy of your transcript if using education to qualify, SF-50s, current/former Federal employees, etc.
• Cover Letter
• DD-214 Statement of Service
• Disability Letter
• Schedule A
• Disability Letter
• VALicense
• Other 1PCS Orders
• Performance Appraisal
• Professional Certification
• Resume
• Separation Notice RIFSF-15
• SF-50 Notification of Personnel Action
• Transcript
• Veterans Preference
• Note: Preference eligible candidates and other Veterans will be given preference when qualification of candidates are approximately equal for Title 38 positions in VHA. When applying for Federal Jobs, eligible Veterans should claim preference for 5pt TP 10pt CPCPSXP or for Sole Survivor Preference SSP in the questionnaire. You must provide a legible copy of your DD214s which shows dates and character of service, honorable, general, etc..