CRNA Quality Improvement Specialist

Overview

To be part of our organization, every employee should understand and share in the YNHHS Vision, support our Mission, and live our values. These values – integrity, patient‑centered, respect, accountability, and compassion – must guide what we do as individuals and professionals every day. We provide exceptional patient care in collaboration with anesthesiologists, surgeons and other physicians to deliver anesthesia for medical and surgical procedures.

We cultivate a patient‑centric environment that focuses on the whole individual, including physical, psychosocial, spiritual, and functional needs of the patient, family, and significant others. We serve as the focal professional for the continuity of care within the scope of practice standards and specialty‑specific standards to address and resolve problems that may arise.

• Clinical Care – The Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) implements accurate, safe, patient‑centric anesthetic care.
• Professional Skill – Understands physiologic implications and anesthetic considerations of surgical procedures, constantly monitors vital signs, capnography, and pulse oximetry during anesthesia according to ASA guidelines.
• Information Management – The CRNA ensures appropriate documentation in accordance with hospital and regulatory requirements and protects information of all forms from unauthorized access, modification, destruction, or disclosure.
• Quality Management – The CRNA demonstrates a high standard of moral and ethical behavior, professionalism, compassion, and commitment to patient care.
• Professional Development – The CRNA continuously engages in projects that maintain and advance professional competency.

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Completion of a Certified Nurse Anesthetist Training Program;
Graduate of a Nurse Anesthesia Educational Program accredited by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Programs. Current State of Connecticut Nursing License, Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) licensure in the State of Connecticut.

Prefer clinical working experience as a CRNA within the given specialty/service line; none required. APRNs, PAs, CRNAs, and CNMs must be appointed to the Affiliated Medical Staff of a YNHHS Hospital and credentialed through the Medical Staff process. Evidence of current competence to practice as an APRN, PA, CRNA, or CNM must be obtained during the Medical Staff appointment process.

• Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist – AANA Certification
• State of CT RN and APRN License
• ACLS Certification
• DEA Registration
• State of CT Controlled Substance Registration

CRNAs must have sharp concentration and focus, ability to stay calm under stressful conditions, communicate clearly and effectively with surgeons, the surgical support team, patients and their families, and maintain a calm and reassuring manner to inspire trust. Anesthetic patient management must be immediate and responsive. Flexibility and adaptability are required.

A CRNA must demonstrate intellectual, conceptual, integrative, and quantitative abilities; observation, communication, and motor functions; and mature behavioral and social attributes. The CRNA must detect and interpret changes in monitoring alarms and equipment, has functional vision and hearing, and adequate tactile sensation. The CRNA should be able to speak, hear, read, write, and communicate effectively. The CRNA has sufficient motor function to elicit pertinent information, can stand for long periods, wear lead as needed, lift 25 pounds, reach above and below shoulder height, negotiate patient care environments, and move self or patients between anesthesia locations.

Coordination of gross and fine muscular movements, equilibrium, and functional use of touch and vision is required. The CRNA must comprehend 3‑dimensional relationships and understand spatial relationships, possess emotional health needed for full utilization of intellectual abilities, demonstrate good judgment, complete responsibilities on time, tolerate physically taxing workloads, function effectively under stress, adapt to changing environments, display flexibility, and learn to function amid uncertainties inherent in clinical problems.

EEO/AA/Disability/Veteran