Meetings, conferences, training and continuing education are part of our everyday life as a health and Nurses. The development and maintenance of own professional expertise are Central requirements to a caregiver today. But exactly how these events run, I didn’t know before. Then I was allowed to be active in it, as my clinic for […]
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Trauma Surgery, Asklepios Clinic St. Georg. It is dark and I start my service. 21.15. I’ll be there early, to give me a small Overview. Atmosphere. Not to be late. I don’t like delays. Since the latest night duty alone. Actually, 44 beds on the ward, but due to a temporary restructuring of 21 beds […]
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The other day a Patient died, suddenly and unexpected for me in my early service. For five days, I had cared for him. I asked him a day after his, provided him with the prescribed infusions and medications. In addition to perform nursing activities, we talked about Everyday things and through his many years of […]
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Medical Education in Austria: Universities Medical education in Austria is very popular, and occupations related to medicine are among the most sought-after and highly paid. Training in medical specialties in Austria is carried out by three public medical universities and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Linz, three private medical universities, and eight […]
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How is this actually going to change after eight years of psychiatric care in a Department in which it comes to physical illness? More specifically, to the care of patients with diseases of the heart? In the five months that I had to go to my study place in vocational education for nursing and health […]
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In hospitals worked around the clock. 24 hours, 365 days of the year. Also on public holidays. For most people, the actual Christmas season has not yet begun. In the hospital, the situation is different. Who works on holidays? Approximately six weeks prior to the start of the month, the preliminary service plans for colleagues. […]
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“When I grow up, I’m going to boss mommy, what’s a chief?” These were my words, when I was six years old. As an employee on my first ICU I asked myself this again multiple times. What is the station management an intensive care unit throughout the day? Since the station cable must be placed […]
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I work on a palliative care unit in the Asklepios clinic, Lich, and often is confused with a hospice. In both establishments, the persons that are terminally ill. And in two facilities each Patient has his own room and their relatives over night. But where exactly is the difference? A carrier of a hospice‘ is […]
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BY SVENJA HORN In the nursing profession every day, there may be other interesting situations. Some are even bizarre. And of course, the layer service is sometimes a nuisance. Nevertheless, The certainty of my patients to help you in your personal life, was always a very good feeling. On top of that, the medical Background […]
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Jan-Hendrik Kolb, a nurse on the intensive care unit of Asklepios hospital Barmbek, loves the variety in his Job. In our Video he tells it like it is, sometimes from 0 to 100 switch and to keep in case of emergencies, the Overview. Especially at the heart, it is for him to take care of […]
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