Welcome to the Infectious Diseases Ward of Tyks Mäntymäki Hospital!
The ward carries out holistic, patient-centred nursing as multi-professional team work. We treat elderly infectious patients in a multidisciplinary manner.
As a student, you will have your own supervisor who will be primarily responsible for your supervision and evaluation during your period of practical training, but the entire personnel will participate in the supervision. You can practice your manual skills under the supervision of the supervisor in issues such as various procedures and pharmacological therapy.
The first week is an orientation week, which is why we hope that you will be working in morning shifts then. The work in hospitals is shift work, the nature of which includes shifts also in the evenings and at weekends. We hope that students take these shifts into account wherever possible when planning the shifts. In this way, the students have the best chance of working with their own supervisors.
The students are already considering their goals for the coming period when choosing their place of internship, in line with the goals set by the school. It is advisable to have a goal discussion with your own instructors right at the start of the internship. The targets should be entered by the end of the first week or, at the latest, by the middle of the second week. During the internship, there is a mid-term and final evaluation. Feedback will naturally be received during the whole internship period. Before the assessment, students should fill in the student feedback.
Teaching and guidance situations
- holistic treatment of elderly patients who have infectious and internal diseases
- patient's arrival interview
- basic, drug and fluid therapy and monitoring of well-being and vital functions of a severely ill elderly patient with an infection
- examinations and procedures during treatment
- guidance for the patient and family
- arrangement of further care facilities
Before practical training
- familiarise yourself with general internal medicine disorders and their treatment
- familiarise yourself with the special features of elderly patient care
- learn to know the following sources:
Hospital as a learning environment
Infection Control Unit
What do you learn in our unit?
- to dilute and process, e.g. intravenous antibiotics as well as perform intravenous fluid procedures
- familiarity with the prevention of infection and the treatment of an isolated patient
- to record nursing work
- to carry out diverse forms of pharmacotherapy
- to handle cannula and catheters
- to process various samples
- nursing work for an elderly patient who has an infectious or internal disease
Contact person
Charge Nurse Terttu Aaltonen (terttu.aaltonen@varha.fi)
