Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)
Merced, California
Staffing partner
Posted Aug 28
- Shift
- 8-hour days
- Hours a week
- 24
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- 8-hour days · 3 a week · 24 hours
- Weekends
- No weekends
- Term
- Permanent
- On the floor
- No call
- Setting
- Ambulatory Surgery
- Accepts
- CRNA
More role details
- Staffing partner
- HealthYes Staffing Network
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
- Sign-on bonus
- $8,000
The median for nursing in California is $49/hr, across 1917 postings. It covers every nursing role in the state, so it is a bearing, not a like-for-like comparison.
About this role
HealthYes Staffing Network is seeking a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist for a permanent position with an established ambulatory surgery organization in California’s Central Valley near Merced.
This opportunity offers an exceptional three-day workweek, a diverse outpatient case mix, and a predictable schedule without call, nights, weekends, or holidays.
Position Highlights
- Permanent CRNA position
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- Annual earning range of approximately $280,000–$350,000
- Three-day clinical workweek
- Eight-hour daily guarantee
- No call, nights, weekends, or holidays
- Outpatient ambulatory surgery setting
- Independent-contractor arrangement
- $8,000 sign-on bonus with a 12-month commitment
- Excellent work-life balance
Responsibilities
- Conduct pre-anesthesia assessments
- Review patient histories and diagnostic information
- Develop individualized anesthesia plans
- Administer general, regional, and monitored anesthesia care
- Perform regional blocks when clinically appropriate
- Monitor patients throughout surgical and procedural cases
- Support postoperative recovery and pain management
- Collaborate with surgeons, nurses, and procedural teams
- Maintain accurate and timely clinical documentation
- Follow applicable quality and patient-safety standards
Case Mix
Cases may include
- Gastroenterology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedics
- Plastic surgery
- Urology
- Otolaryngology
- Oral surgery
- General surgery
- Pain management
- Podiatry
- Gynecology
- Cardiology
Qualifications
- Graduate of an accredited nurse-anesthesia program
- Current NBCRNA certification
- Active California RN and CRNA licenses or eligibility
- Current BLS and ACLS certifications
- Experience performing regional blocks
- Strong independent-practice and clinical decision-making skills
Compensation
- Annual earning range: approximately $280,000–$350,000
- $8,000 sign-on bonus with a 12-month commitment
- Permanent independent-contractor position
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Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited nurse-anesthesia program
- Current NBCRNA certification
- Active California RN and CRNA licenses or eligibility
- Current BLS and ACLS certifications
- Experience performing regional blocks
- Strong independent-practice and clinical decision-making skills
Place
- City
- Merced, California
- Rent against this pay
- 5% of monthly gross
- Local household income
- $63,122/yr
- Metro price level
- 2% below the national average
$1,393 median rent against $26,208 a month at $252/hr for 24 hours a week, before tax. Census ACS 2024.
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Merced area index 98.3, where 100 is the national average.
Known as the 'Gateway to Yosemite,' Merced sits in California's Central Valley amid farmland and tree-lined residential streets. Home to UC Merced, this mid-sized city offers a slower, small-town pace within a few hours' drive of both Sierra Nevada recreation and Bay Area metro life.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities.
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You would reach the Queens bedside through HealthYes Staffing Network, a healthcare recruitment firm headquartered in Roswell, Georgia, that matches nurses and advanced practice clinicians to private practices and organizations nationwide. In Flushing/Queens they are filling a Family Nurse Practitioner…
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