Advance Practice Nurse (Nurse Anesthetist)

Summary

About the Position: Incumbent provides full range of direct anesthetic services and pain management to eligible beneficiaries of a Defense Health Agency (DHA) Military Medical Treatment Facility (MTF). This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. Recruitment Incentive May be authorized. Relocation Incentive May be authorized.

Duties

• Determines the optimal type and method of anesthesia care to administer for a broad range of surgical procedures at the MTF.
• Evaluates data, with respect to individualized anesthetic options and current practice guidelines, to determine and discuss the optimal anesthetic plan.
• Obtains patient consent for the type of anesthesia to be utilized, expected outcomes and possible anesthetic complications.
• Gathers equipment, prepares, inspects, and ensures proper sanitation and function of equipment to be used in performance of work.
• Serves as an anesthesia resource consultant to a wide variety of medical, surgical, and nursing specialties to delineate the latest advances in anesthesia practice.
• Evaluates data, with respect to anesthesia and evolvements within the field, to determine and discuss type of anesthesia to be used, and to explain expected outcomes and possible anesthetic complications.
• Determines necessity for laboratory studies, coordinates ordering of lab tests and evaluates results.
• Provides immediate, post-operative care to patients transported to the PACU, ICU or recovery area; ensures patient airway, hemodynamic stability, optimal pain control and appropriate level of consciousness.
• Provides immediate and appropriate interventions to include advanced life support (ALS) and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) according to guidelines and within the scope of practice.
• Discriminates between normal and abnormal findings to treat underlying causes and conditions and stabilize the patient for transport to a higher level of care.
• Documents assessments, orders, and interventions, appropriately, in the medical record.

Education

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.