Forbes 2024 List of Best Place to work by State! Bayhealth Medical Center ranked #3 in Delaware.

Bayhealth Medical Center is Central and Southern Delaware’s healthcare leader with hospitals in Dover (Kent Campus) and Milford (Sussex Campus), a stand-alone ED in Smyrna and a hybrid ED/Urgent Care in Milton (Bayhealth TotalCare). Bayhealth Medical Center provides a wide range of healthcare services including cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, orthopedics and rehabilitation, pediatrics, level II neonatal ICU, radiology and women’s services. We are COMMITED to provide excellent, compassionate care to our many patients, providing them with a comforting experience in their time of need and crisis. Bayhealth Medical Center is affiliated with the Penn Cancer Network and the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Orthopedics New Graduate Medical Education programs for physicians – teaching institutions are centers that value growth, education and collaboration.

Forbes 2024 List of Best Place to work by State! Bayhealth Medical Center ranked #3 in Delaware.

Our healthcare system has more than 4,500 employees. Our nurse anesthetists at the Kent Campus provides expert services in 11 OR suites, EP lab and OB with cases that include orthopedics, neuro, open heart, vascular, plastics, and trauma.
Bayhealth is a team environment but the nurse anesthetist’s practice autonomy is preserved. Appropriately, trained staff can perform regional anesthesia and invasive monitoring. The nurse anesthetists administer anesthesia to all age-specific patients having a wide variety of surgical, obstetric or diagnostic procedures in collaboration with an anesthesiologist. These staff members provide airway management and trauma services on a 24-hour basis.

Bayhealth Medical Center Kent Campus is 90 minutes from Philadelphia, Washington, DC and Baltimore. Our Sussex Campus is 30 minutes to the Delaware beaches and relaxation in the sand!

Bayhealth Medical Center offers competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package including:
Choice of $100,000 Student Loan repayment or $75,000 sign on bonus
Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
Matching 401(k)/403(b) Plans
CME reimbursement (up to $2,500)
Excellent Health, Dental, Vision, Disability and Life Insurance options
Flexible Call Shift

Bayhealth Medical Center is looking for certified registered nurse anesthetists who are engaged in their profession, committed to providing the best care and believe in the mission of Bayhealth. We are looking for staff with Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity, Teamwork.

Hours are flexible for Full-Time or Per Diem positions. Whether you are seeking work/life balance or the excitement of never knowing what is coming in the door next, we can help connect you to your future!

General Summary:
Administers anesthesia to all age specific patients having a wide variety of surgical, obstetric, or diagnostic procedures in collaboration with an anesthesiologist. Provides airway management and trauma services on a 24-hour basis.

Responsibilities:
1. Collects and prepares materials needed for a specific procedure within 15 minutes of completion of prior case. Performs daily equipment checks to assure equipment is functioning properly.
2. For each procedure, performs a thorough pre-anesthesia assessment and evaluation of patient and accompanying chart; ensures that appropriate tests have been completed and findings/results are documented on patients chart.
3. Obtains and verifies that an informed consent has been obtained by a qualified provider; ensures all results are logged on patients chart. Participates in full-stop and time-out procedures.
4. Formulates and documents a patient-specific plan for anesthesia care, based on pre-anesthetic assessment, problem analysis, anticipated surgical procedure, current anesthesia principles, and anesthetic recommendations. Communicates and discusses these plan results with the attending anesthesiologist through specific discussion for each patient.
5. During procedure, induce and maintain anesthesia at required levels, as defined by patient specific plan, and in accordance with defined standards.
6. Conduct continuous and vigilant clinical observation of the patients physiologic condition as appropriate for the type of anesthesia used. Document all activity, including omission of any standard and the reason stated on the patient’s anesthesia record.
7. Notify attending anesthesiologist at the start and completion of every case and if patient-specific plan of anesthesia is altered before or during a procedure.
8. Audit patients€™s medical record to assure complete documentation of pertinent information. Include documentation of all interventions and patient responses.
9. Assess patients€™s status to determine when safe to transfer the responsibility of care to other qualified providers. Complete discharge documentation and record hand-off of the patient on the anesthesia record.
10. Maintains Infection Prevention standards
11. All other duties as assigned, within the scope and range of job responsibilities.

Required Education, Credential(s) and Experience:
• Education: Master Degree Nurse Anesthesia Practice
• Credential(s): Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists; Registered Nurse; Advanced Practice Registered Nurse; Basic Life Support
• Experience: No Experience Required

Preferred Education, Credential(s) and Experience:
• Education: Doctorate Degree Nurse Anesthesia Practice
• Credential(s):
• Experience: Two (2) or more years’ experience as a CRNA; Active member of the AANA, DANA and DNA.