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PreCare
PreCare functions to provide high quality comprehensive care and
services for patients that will undergo surgery or anesthesia dependent
procedures. The department consists of thirteen exam rooms designed for
patient evaluation, teaching, lab tests and EKG. The facility also
includes CXR capabilities. The staff is highly committed to caring for
patients ranging in age from newborn to geriatric. The PreCare staff
works as a team to facilitate appropriate and effective care for
patients and families enhancing the flow of patients to the Operating
Room and procedural areas.
- Staffed by RNs from 7:30 am till 6:00 pm.
Procedural Care Suites
PCS includes two areas adjacent to the Main OR. One area is designed to
provide pre-procedure care and phase II recovery prior to discharge.
The second area is the Short Stay Unit for extended recovery overnight
care.
PCS in The Women’s and Children’s Hospital is separated into 6 pods for
Women and 6 pods for children, having a play room incorporated into the
area geared to kids..
- 6:00 am to 11:00 pm Monday through Friday Main
- 6:00am Monday to 11:00 am Saturday Short Stay Unit
- 6:00 am to 7:00 pm Monday through Friday Women’s &
Children’s
Operating Rooms: OR
UNCH OR is a fast paced 31-room suite offering a team-based scheduling
structure. We are a level-1 trauma center with 6 primary specialty
teams. These teams are: Cardiothoracic/Transplant/Vascular,
Orthopedics, General/Urology, Neuro/Ophthalmology, Plastics/Burns/OHN,
OMF, and Pediatrics/ GYN. UNC Hospital is a teaching facility with
multiple levels of students and residents in every specialty group and
department within the hospital. We are set in the middle of the
beautiful University of NC campus, allowing access to many educational
classes and other offerings. Every OR staff member is actively involved
in a department-level team focusing on one of six areas such as
Technology, Quality, or Retention. Weekly team meetings, newsletters,
and frequent e-mails and surveys keep staff and management informed on
changes occurring within the department as well as hospital and
industry-wide.
The ORs are located on both the 2nd and the 4th floor.
Post Anesthesia Care Unit: PACU
The post – anesthesia care unit is the surgical recovery area for adult
and pediatric patients located adjacent to the operating rooms both in
the Main Hospital and the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. RN’s staff
the PACU and our nurses manage critical and special care patients as
well as non-acute patients. This diversity of patient acuity demands
highly skilled, experienced nurses with a broad knowledge of surgical
interventions and anesthesia techniques, creating a dynamic place to
work.
- 24 hours a day 7 days a week in the Main Hospital
- 8:00 am – 9:30 pm 5 days a week in Women & Children’s
Urophysiology
The Urophysiology Lab offers full service diagnostic evaluation and
treatment of urinary incontinence, dysfunctional voiding, impotence,
and management of neurogenic bladder to urology and urogynecology
patients. Specific procedures performed include video urodynamics,
non-fluoroscopic urodynamics, cystoscopic exams biofeedback for
incontinence and intravesicular bladder instillations.
- Staffed by RNs Monday through Friday 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Cysto Suites
The Cysto Suite provides a specialized area where both inpatients and
outpatients may have their urological endoscopic procedures performed
with state of the art equipment. Patients range in age from pediatrics
to geriatrics. Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures
performed by trained urology attendings and urology surgery
residents.
- Staffed by RNs and a Surgical Technologist
- Monday through Friday 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
GI Services
The GI Services includes Adult and Pediatric procedure units and
Motility procedure unit. The GI Procedures Unit provides two
specialized areas ( Memorial and Meadowmont) where both inpatients and
outpatients may have their endosocpy procedures performed with
state-of-the-art endoscopy equipment. Patients range in age from
newborns to geriatrics. The Motility unit provides diagnostic testing
associated with physiology of the GI tract.
- An RN staff, provides a nurse/ patient ratio of 1:1 during
procedures.
- Monday through Friday, 7:00 am – 6:00 pm
(The adult GI staff provides on-call for weekend biliary cases.)
Ambulatory Surgery Center at the Ambulatory Care
Center
The ambulatory surgery programs are housed in a separate facility,
located in the Ambulatory Care Center (ACC), includes four OR’s as well
as preoperative and post anesthesia care areas (phase I and II
recovery), and it’s own instrument reprocessing area. Staffed by RNs,
Surgical Technologists, Central Sterile Technicians, OR Assistants,
Nursing Aides and Medical Support Assistants that enjoy working in a
team-based environment. Our department partners with the Main Surgical
Service’s educators to provide the same educational opportunities as
the main O.R. and involve staff in weekly in-services.
The department is scheduled for a major renovation in 2009-2010 that
will allow expansion to 8 operating rooms, an expanded pre-op, pacu and
a 12 bed overnight stay unit. The original department will undergo an
extensive renovation allowing for high definition minimally invasive
technology to be integrated to the new operating rooms and computer
facilitated ordering for central distribution supplies.
The staff enjoys the best of all worlds working as a team, in a wide
diversity of areas, surgical specialty services, all with a fast pace.
This is an excellent unit in which to utilize a broad knowledge base
and many varied skills. Because this unit is closed on weekends and
holidays, you will also have ample opportunity to enjoy the North
Carolina Mountains and beaches, which are in close proximity.
- The pre-op and pacu staff the unit from 6:30 am – 6:30 pm Monday
through Friday. The operating rooms are on 9 hour blocks and the staff
work 10hour shifts from 0700 to 17:30. The Short Stay Unit will be open
from Monday at 9 a m. to Saturday noon.
Central Processing Department
The Central Processing Department is instrumental in providing high
quality 24-hour service to all critical care areas of the hospitals.
Team members primarily work with decontamination, assembly and
sterilization of instrumentation as well as the compilation of supplies
necessary to perform surgical cases. Staffed by a very dedicated team
of Sterile Technologists, the department offers mostly 8-hour shifts
that may be staggered throughout all hours of operation for improved
efficiency. Weekend rotations may be required. Use of the Censitrac
instrument tracking system is required. The CPD team conducts staff
meetings every Wednesday morning for education, committee development,
and communication.
- Operation: 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
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