UNC Health
Mills River, NC
Job Description
Description Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina. Summary: Reporting and accountable to the Nurse Manager, Director, the Outpatient Clinical Nurse is responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in an outpatient setting. Responsibilities: Assesses patients either attending the outpatient clinic or via phone interview, to prepare the patient for anesthesia and the surgical process. This may include conducting preoperative assessments such as medical and surgical history, current medications, allergies, lab result review/ordering, and overall anesthesia risk evaluation prior to surgery. Follows the Peri-Anesthesia Testing Guidelines and surgeon orders. In person clinic patients will have complete...