Acute Geriatric Cardiac Ward

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Welcome to the Cardiac Ward of Tyks Mäntymäki Hospital!

The ward carries out holistic, patient-centred nursing as multi-professional team work. We treat elderly cardiac 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. 

It is recommended to think about your goals for the upcoming period in line with the goals given by the school as early as when choosing the place of practical training. You will have a discussion about the goals with your own supervisors right at the beginning of the practical training period. You will receive a mid-term evaluation during the period. Before the final evaluation, we hope that you will fill in the student feedback.

Teaching and guidance situations

• comprehensive treatment of an elderly cardiac patient
• cardioversion of atrial fibrillation
• telemetry monitoring
• respiratory support devices
• patient’s arrival interview
• basic, medication and fluid therapy of a cardiac and internal medicine patient as well as monitoring of well-being and vital functions
• examinations and procedures during treatment
• guidance for the patient and family
• arrangement of further care facilities

Before practical training

• familiarise yourself with general cardiac and internal medicine diseases 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?

• nursing work and nursing process of elderly cardiac and internal medicine patients
• record nursing work
• carry out diverse forms of pharmacotherapy
• implement patient’s I.V. medication therapy
• handle cannula and catheters 
• process various laboratory samples

Contact person

Charge Nurse Tiina Antonios (tiina.antonios@varha.fi)

General matters:

• Each patient has a personal locker, which can be locked, in the room. However, we hope that relatives take the patient’s extra money and valuables home. The hospital and personnel are not responsible for lost valuables.
• The use of one’s own telephone is allowed in the ward. Please take other patients into account by using, for example, silent modes. 
• We are a non-smoking hospital. Smoking is allowed only in the designated area. Possession of a lighter is prohibited in hospital premises.
• It is forbidden to bring alcoholic beverages or other intoxicants to the hospital.

See more about the patient's rights.

Patient information is given to close relatives and those to whom the patient has given permission to disclose information. We hope that the relatives agree on one contact person who can then inform other relatives about the patient’s matters. 

The nurse can best be reached between 1 pm and 2 pm or by leaving a message. The doctor can be reached by leaving a message. It is recommended to agree on the times of contact in advance so that the nurse or doctor has time to familiarise themselves with the patient’s case before the telephone call.

Ward tel. 02 266 2022

The ward has 10 telemetry places. Telemetry registrations can be made in all wards located in building 1A of Tyks Mäntymäki Hospital. All registrations are monitored in the Cardiac Ward. 

The Cardiac Ward carries out approximately 200 bedside examinations per year with its own mobile UCG device. 

The visiting hours at the hospital are from 2 pm to 6 pm.

Please make an arrangement on other visiting hours separately with the ward personnel. We kindly ask visitors to leave the room for the duration of treatment of patients.