Instructor - Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist

Baylor College of Medicine and The Department of Anesthesiology

The Department of Anesthesiology at Baylor College of Medicine is focused on patient care and research in all aspects of the specialty including critical care, postoperative cognitive dysfunction, simulator-based anesthesiology education, obstetric anesthesia and pain management.

The Department of Anesthesiology seeks to excel as providers of effective, efficient and ethical anesthesia care for patients at any Baylor-affiliated institution; as providers of educational opportunities for medical students, graduate students, and post-graduate specialty trainees, advanced practice providers, continuing medical education participants, and undergraduates; and as researchers in the basic sciences, clinical milieu, or outcome epidemiology related to anesthesiology practices.

Baylor College of Medicine: We are a health sciences university that provides the best care, educates the best minds and develops the best treatments.

Summary

Come join our fabulous, small practice group at the McNair campus of the Texas Medical Center. Pleasant workplace, nice staff and surgeons, wonderful atmosphere. Fair, daily departure list. Our CRNAs at the Specialty Care Center provide services on approximately 7,700 cases per year, including ophthalmology and endoscopy cases.

BCM Offers:

• A highly competitive pay scale; salary commensurate with experience
• Flexible scheduling opportunities; multiple work locations may be possible
• Work/Life Balance: 22 days of vacation, 11 paid holidays and education time
• CME dollars
• Great benefits package including: Health, Dental; Retirement Savings Programs (8% contribution to 401(a)), and more;
• To learn more about our benefits, please visit bcm.edu/careers/benefits

New graduates are strongly encouraged to apply!

The Lee and Joe Jamail Specialty Care Center is a part of the McNair Campus of the Texas Medical Center, along with the Baylor College of Medicine Medical Center.

Job Purpose

To deliver safe, high quality, evidence-based anesthesia care for patients in a day surgery setting with high volume and quick turnover cases.

Job Duties

• Administers high quality, safe inhalational and intravenous anesthesia for surgical and/or medical procedures
• Plays a crucial role in supporting patient safety throughout the perioperative period
• Assesses and evaluates patients prior to the administration of anesthesia in order to formulate anesthetic plan
• Monitors patients and vital signs during procedures
• Responds to emergency/code situations in order to provide airway management
• Documents anesthetic information and patient condition
• Performs other job related duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

Education: Master's degree in in Nursing.
Experience: None required.
Certification:

• Required: Current license as a Registered Nurse (RN) by the State of Texas Board of Nursing.
• Required: Current Certification as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) from the National Board of Certification and Recertification for Nurse Anesthetists and Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN).
• Required: Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification. ACLS/PALS card required.

Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.

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