UPMC Leader Surgery Center has an exciting leadership opportunity for a Chief CRNA interested in growing our professional team of CRNAs in York, 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:
 

• Primary Duties

   

  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,

   

• 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.