Advanced Practice Nurse- (Certified Nurse Anesthetist - CRNA

This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. To be eligible, you must meet specific requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment.

• This Advanced Practice Nurse (Certified Nurse Anesthetist) position is in Anesthesiology Services at the VA Maine Healthcare Systems, located at the Togus, ME location.
• This position is full-time at 40 hours per week.
• Duties will include, but are not limited to: collaborating with health care professionals to achieve common goals for patient care, safety, and welfare.
• Fostering high levels of confidence and satisfaction among patients and staff, as well as meeting and exceeding compliance standards.
• Providing 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.
• Developing and implementing a comprehensive anesthesia plan of care for patients requiring local, regional, general, and monitored anesthesia, both inside and outside the Operating Room (OR) suite.
• Ensuring anesthetic services delivered throughout the facility are of the highest quality to promote patient safety, satisfaction, and improve outcomes and efficiencies.
• Functioning as a resource for staff education and being willing to be a preceptor and adjunct clinical faculty for health care trainees rotating through the facility.
• Developing and implementing evidence-based practices essential to delivering the highest quality anesthesia care.
• Prescribing appropriate preoperative, intra-operative, and postoperative orders and medications.
• Exemplifying the ICARE core values of Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect, and Excellence.

• Competitive salary, regular salary increases, and potential for performance awards.
• Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time off per year, including 13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, and 11 paid Federal holidays per year.
• Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual based on prior work experience or military service experience.
• Parental Leave: up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child after 12 months of employment.
• Child Care Subsidy: eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66 after 60 days of employment.
• Retirement: traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA.
• Insurance: federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement).

• 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory.
• Work Schedule:
  
  full-time, Monday-Friday with rotating schedule.
• Telework: not available.
• Virtual: this is not a virtual position.

• Relocation/Recruitment
  
  Incentives:
  
  may be authorized.
• EDRP Authorized: former EDRP participants are ineligible to apply for incentive.
• Contact Hanna.
  
  Neilson, hannah.neilson, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance.
• This position is in the Excepted Service and is not a Bargaining Unit position.