Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist - Optum NY - 2266962

UnitedHealth Group; New York (NY); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, where your contributions will directly impact patient care across multiple locations in New York. This role offers a unique opportunity to work in a collaborative environment, providing essential anesthesia services while being supported by a dedicated team. You will be empowered to practice at the top of your license, ensuring high-quality patient outcomes. The organization is committed to diversity and inclusion, fostering a culture where every clinician can thrive. Experience the fulfillment of advancing community health and be part of a mission that truly cares for patients. If you are passionate about making healthcare better for everyone, this position is the perfect fit for you.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Incentive and recognition programs

Equity stock purchase

401k contribution

Qualifications

• Current state licensure as a registered nurse in NY required.
• Graduate of an accredited nurse anesthesia educational program.

Responsibilities

• Perform preanesthetic assessments and document evaluations.
• Develop and implement anesthetic plans and manage patient care.

Skills

Patient Assessment

Anesthetic Techniques

Airway Management

Emergency Response

Education

Nurse Anesthesia Educational Program

Current State Licensure as Registered Nurse

Tools

Anesthesia Monitoring Equipment

Intravenous Sedation Equipment

Job description

Optum NY, (formerly Optum Tri-State NY) is seeking a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist to join our team in Lake Success, Woodbury, Syosset & Massapequa, NY. Optum is a clinician-led care organization that is changing the way clinicians work and live.

As a member of the Optum Care Delivery team, you’ll be an integral part of our vision to make healthcare better for everyone. At Optum, you’ll have the clinical resources, data and support of a global organization behind you so you can help your patients live healthier lives. Here, you’ll work alongside talented peers in a collaborative environment that is guided by diversity and inclusion while driving towards the Quadruple Aim. We believe you deserve an exceptional career, and will empower you to live your best life at work and at home. Experience the fulfillment of advancing the health of your community with the excitement of contributing new practice ideas and initiatives that could help improve care for millions of patients across the country. Because together, we have the power to make health care better for everyone. Join us and discover how rewarding medicine can be while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Position Highlights:

• Collegial multispecialty group practice with a large referral base
• Focus on team-based care
• Excellent support staff and dedicated practice management systems
• Full complement of clinical and administrative support teams to assist with patient care

Responsibilities:

• Performing and documenting a preanesthetic assessment and evaluation of the patient, including requesting consultations and diagnostic studies; selecting, obtaining, ordering, or administering preanesthetic medications and fluids; and obtaining informed consent for anesthesia
• Developing and implementing an anesthetic plan
• Selecting and initiating the planned anesthetic technique that may include general, regional, and local anesthesia and intravenous sedation
• Selecting, obtaining, or administering the anesthetics, adjuvant drugs, accessory drugs, and fluids necessary to manage the anesthetic, to maintain the patient's physiologic homeostasis, and to correct abnormal responses to the anesthesia or surgery
• Selecting, applying, or inserting appropriate noninvasive and invasive monitoring modalities for collecting and interpreting patient physiological data
• Managing a patient's airway and pulmonary status using endotracheal intubation, mechanical ventilation, pharmacological support, respiratory therapy, or extubation
• Managing emergence and recovery from anesthesia by selecting, obtaining, ordering, or administering medications, fluids, or ventilatory support to maintain homeostasis, to provide relief from pain and anesthesia side effects, or to prevent or manage complications
• Releasing or discharging patients from a post-anesthesia care area and providing post-anesthesia follow-up evaluation and care related to anesthesia side effects or complications
• Ordering, initiating, or modifying pain relief therapy, through the utilization of drugs, regional anesthetic techniques, or other accepted pain relief modalities, including labor epidural analgesia
• Responding to emergency situations by providing airway management, administration of emergency fluids or drugs, or using basic or advanced cardiac life support techniques.
• Additional nurse anesthesia responsibilities which are within the expertise of the individual CRNA

What makes an Optum organization different?

• Be part of a best-in-class employee experience that enables you to practice at the top of your license
• We believe that better care for clinicians equates to better care for patients
• We are influencing change collectively on a national scale while still maintaining the culture and community of our local care organizations
• Practice medicine autonomously in an ambulatory setting partnering with primary care, with a sustainable and thriving national health care organization

Required Qualifications:

• Holds current state licensure as a registered nurse in the state of New York, and complies with any applicable state statutory or regulatory requirements concerning advanced practice registered nursing
• Graduate of a nurse anesthesia educational program accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs or its predecessor
• Complies with one of the following requirements regarding certification eligibility, initial certification, or recertification:
• Is currently certified by the Council on Certification of Nurses Anesthetists or its predecessor; or
• Is currently recertified by the Council on Recertification of Nurse Anesthetists.
• Insurable by an appropriate medical malpractice insurer for the limits required by this institution or state
• Demonstrates current competency in the clinical responsibilities for which the candidate is applying

The salary range for this role is $191,500 to $261,500 annually based on full-time employment. Salary Range is defined as total cash compensation at target. The actual range and pay mix of base and bonus is variable based upon experience and metric achievement. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.