Provides clinical services as a nurse anesthetist under the supervision of MD. Administers various types of anesthesia to render patients insensible to pain during surgical procedures, manipulation or setting of fractures, deliveries, and other therapeutic and diagnostic procedures. Performs other duties as assigned.
Job Responsibilities
• Assesses the patient.
• Develops a plan of care.
• Implements the plan of care.
• Evaluates the plan of care.
• Administers medications as prescribed.
• Provides patient, family, and/or significant other health teaching/education.
• Participates in activities designed to improve health care delivery.
• Provides leadership.
• Participates in ongoing educational activities.
Minimum Required Experience
Insurable by an appropriate medical malpractice insurer for the limits required by the institution or State.
Minimum Required Education
Graduate of a nurse anesthesia program accredited by the Council of Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs or its predecessor.
Minimum Required Special Skills
Computer literacy.
Minimum Required Licensure
AANA certification required. Complies with any applicable state statutory or regulatory requirements concerning the advanced practice of nursing and expanded Nurse Practitioner license and certification. PALS within 90 days of hire. PALS;RN;ACLS;CRNA
Baptist Memorial Health Care is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health care systems and the largest provider of Medicaid in the region. Baptist offers a full continuum of care to communities throughout the Mid-South and consistently ranks among the top integrated health care networks in the country. The health care system comprises 24 affiliate hospitals in West Tennessee, Mississippi and East Arkansas; more than 5,400 affiliated physicians; Baptist Medical Group, a multispecialty physician group with more than 900 providers; home, hospice and psychiatric care; minor medical centers and clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation and other outpatient centers; and an education system highlighted by Baptist Health Sciences University (formerly Baptist College of Health Sciences). Baptist employs more than 21,000 people, and in fiscal year 2022 contributed more than $455 million in community benefit and uncompensated care to the communities it serves. For more information, please visit www.baptistonline.org or follow us on Facebook or Instagram.
