Stephen Alday CRNA

Staff CRNA Jan 2023 - Present. Served as Assistant Director Wesley Long Anesthesia Services Jul 2020 -Jan 2023. Managed 24 CRNA's and 2 anesthesia technicians. Interim Assistant Director Wesley Long Anesthesia Services Mar-Jun 2020 Staff/Charge anesthetist Jul 2008-Mar 2020 providing MAC, General, and Spinal anesthetics. Responsible for guiding and teaching nurse anesthesia students as well as instructing paramedic students intubation skills. Plan, organize, supervise and provide assignments for nurse anesthetist staff.

Retired as Lieutenant Colonel with 23 years experience with the military. Worked as Nurse Anesthetist providing care to surgical patients during training weeks including managing nurses and technicians to provide quality patient care. Responsible for military medical group to different installations for training. Coordinated swine cadaver lab for nurses and technicians for hands on training of different surgical and suturing techniques.

Anesthetist, part time work as needed between Cone Day Surgical Center and North Elam Surgery Center.

Anesthetist providing anesthesia care to all ASA classification of patients. Mentor and educator to student nurse anesthetist. Communicated students' individual and group performance to lead faculty. Accompanied a student nurse anesthetist as teacher and solo practitioner on anesthesia mission trip to Honduras. Provided care to patients for a general surgery group from Alabama.

Anesthetist provided anesthesia care to pediatric and adult patients. Administered anesthetics before surgery and monitored effects prior, during and after surgery.

Specializing in women services and obstetrics, provided General, Spinal, and Epidural anesthetics. Maintained strict patient privacy and confidential patient information, taking care to meet all HIPAA guidelines and statues for data security.

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist proving anesthesia care for surgical patients. Managed group of CRNA's during deployment after 911. Deployed to Wilford Hall AFB, San Antonio, TX. Performed anesthesia in 3 week joint Army/Air Force operation to Honduras to provide anesthesia for children with strabismus and adult cataract surgeries. Performed multiple general pediatric anesthetics as well as many retrobulbar blocks for the adults receiving cataract surgery. Maintained and completed Officer Performance Reports (OPR's) to military unit officers.

Anesthetist provided anesthesia to all ASA classifications of patients, including MAC, General, and Spinal anesthetics. Skilled clinician able to identify, analyze, and resolve complex patient care and system problems. Strongly motivated and works effectively with other members of the health care team. Mentor and advisor to Nurse Anesthesia students. Freelanced with locum tenens group as solo anesthetist for 2 weeks at Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota.

Anesthetist/Registered Nurse responsible for training nurses and medical technicians for physicals of pilots, flight crews, flight medical teams at the medical clinic. Updated policy and procedures. Quality improvement officer following turnover patterns in the clinic to standardize and minimize wait time for military personnel including satisfaction surveys.

Registered Nurse managing medical clinic, training and screening members for flight status. Responsible for training nurses and technicians for auditory and visual exams. Attended outdoor team building military exercises requiring mental and physical challenges identifying strengths and weaknesses.

Registered Nurse of an 8 bed Surgical Intensive Care Unit providing care for post open heart and post critical surgical patients. Charge Nurse responsible for assisting and distributing responsibilities to staff.

Trained as flight nurse with the Aerovac Squadron on C-141 Cargo plane in Charleston AFB, South Carolina. Deployed in Desert Storm as flight nurse to Ramstein AFB, Germany. Trained for the conversion transportation of patients from the C-141 to the C-17 Cargo plane.

Registered Nurse on active duty. One year on an oncology ward taking care of multiple patients with multiple antibiotic and chemotherapy and managing medical technicians. Two years in Medical/Surgical intensive care unit taking care of critically ill patients and managing other Registered Nurses and medical technicians to provide patient care.

Registered Nurse received experience in critical care, including providing care for patients in medical/surgical and coronary care units. 2 years of Charge Nurse responsibilities.