Chief CRNA, UPMC Harrisburg

UPMC Harrisburg has an exciting leadership opportunity for a Chief CRNA interested in growing our professional team of CRNAs in Harrisburg, PA. Come join our team and make a difference in your career!

Purpose

The Chief CRNA is a professional nurse who is responsible for formulating a plan related to quality, cost, and patient outcomes of patient care. By supporting the philosophy of patient care, the Chief CRNA provides leadership to the patient care team.

The Chief CRNA provides direct patient care, facilitates staff development, staff performance, and validates the appropriateness of patient care management.

Demonstrating flexibility in meeting the unit’s needs, the Chief CRNA assumes responsibilities for operational and personnel activities of the unit that relate to quality, cost, and outcomes of patient care. Supports the essential process of sustaining and improving performance.

Responsibilities

Patient Care: Performs direct patient care in a manner that reflects patient care standards. Serves as a role model and as resource person to staff members in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nurse care for patients. Develops comprehensive, innovative, realistic goals and objectives for the CRNA’s in collaboration with the patient care team.

Leadership: Promotes effective planning and utilization anesthesia resources for efficient and cost-effective delivery of quality care. Manage and review care and practice issues. Serves as a resource in problem solving, mediating, and negotiating between anesthesia care team.

Acts as a role model in the development of staff in the charge nurse role. Performs growth and development conferences, coaches employees for performance and provides feedback. Performs annual CRNA performance evaluations. Empowers Anesthesia Care Team to take ownership of their actions and responsibilities.

Demonstrates commitment to the development and implementation of innovative strategies to recruit and retain quality personnel. Facilitates growth and change in a proactive manner. Demonstrates professionalism through accountability and confidentiality. Recruits, interviews, hires, counsels, disciplines, and when necessary,

Terminates employees: Performs duties in accordance with the Employee Standards of Conduct. Supports the essential process of sustaining and improving performance. Monitors, evaluates, and promotes collaborative, productive team functioning of all members of the Anesthesia Care Team.

Directs staff to appropriate resources to enhance delivery of care. Promotes open communication, positive physician/staff interactions and the timely resolution of inter/intradepartmental issues.

Assesses staffing needs of current and upcoming shifts and utilizes resources to provide for changing care needs. o Communicates effectively in inter/intradepartmental matters. Facilitates inter-shift communication. Monitor CRNA schedule and payroll. Responds to and monitors incident reports.

Ensures department is in compliance with regulatory bodies. Conducts staff meetings for CRNA’s monthly. Assumes 24-hr. responsibility and accountability for direction and coordination of activities of clinical unit.

Professional Development Demonstrates commitment to own professional development. Maintains a collaborative relationship with peers. Promotes the anesthesia profession through community involvement and participation in professional organizations and as a mentor for all health care providers. Completes required competencies.

Customer Service: Demonstrates the highest degree of customer awareness by seeking out opportunities to identify and meet the needs of internal and external customers. Treats each person as an individual with respect and dignity. Is receptive to questions and criticism and willing to offer assistance.

Demonstrates genuine concern and empathy. Consistently performs all of the above in a friendly, courteous manner. Maintains accountability for patient satisfaction throughout the episode of care.

Secondary Duties: Completes unit-specific educational requirements as well as System related fire, safety, and emergency procedures. Performance improvement. Facilitates the performance improvement process by continuous monitoring and identification of patient outcomes, intra/interdepartmental and environmental concerns. Displays a willingness to utilize problem solving techniques to insure appropriate interventions and resolutions.

Human Relations / Contact and Communications: Must be optimistic, enthusiastic, and communicate effectively with all levels of personnel. Must demonstrate a willingness to work constructively and cooperatively with other health care team members and reflects a concern for both patients and employee’s well-being. Must demonstrate effective interpersonal and communication skills.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Master’s Degree, equivalency or candidacy is preferred. Minimum of two (2) year’s clinical anesthesia experience in specific specialty area with a sound knowledge base. Must demonstrate strong leadership skills and clinical competency.

ACLS and BLS a requirement., Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Minimum of three (3) years clinical anesthesia experience. Ability to deal with highly stressful Situations and changing events. Good communication skills.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances

CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)Registered Nurse (RN)

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) OR Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)
• Registered Nurse (RN)

*Current licensure either in the state where the facility is located or, if the facility is in a state covered by the multistate Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC) agreement, a multistate license issued by a participating NLC state. Hires and current employees working on an out-of-state NLC license who later change their residency to the state where the facility is also located will have 60 days upon changing their residency to apply for licensure within that state.

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/VeteranCopy from Internal Qualifications