Geriatric Emergency Department

The invoice is sent after the treatment period.

Katso asiakasmaksut.

Welcome to the Geriatric Emergency Department of Tyks Mäntymäki Hospital!

The department carries out holistic, patient-centred nursing work as multi-professional team work. We treat elderly patients in need of acute hospital care in a multidisciplinary manner.

As a student, you will be assigned two instructors who will be responsible for your guidance and assessment during your internship, but the entire staff are also glad to participate in the instruction. As a student, you may, under the supervision of an instructor, practice your skills in, e.g. various procedures as well as in carrying out pharmacotherapy. 

In a hospital, shift work applies, also in the evenings and at weekends. We hope that the students will take the above-mentioned shifts into account as much as possible when planning them. In this way, students are best placed to work with their own instructors.

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 instruction situations

• comprehensive investigation, treatment and assessment of older patients
• the patient's arrival interview
• basic, medication and fluid therapy as well as monitoring of the condition and vital functions of an elderly, acutely ill patient
• examinations and procedures during treatment
• geriatric gauges
• guidance for the patient and family
• arrangement of further care facilities and possible rehabilitation
• multidisciplinary co-operation

Before practical training

• familiarise yourself with the special features of elderly patient care
• learn to know the following sources: 

Hospital as a learning environment

Sairaalahygienia- ja infektiontorjuntayksikkö

What do you learn in our unit?

• care work and comprehensive assessment of an elderly patient
• to map out the reasons for the decline in the patient's physical, mental and social functional capacity within a multi-professional team
• record nursing work
• carry out diverse forms of pharmacotherapy
• to work in co-operation with different professional groups

Contact person

Charge Nurse Minna Johansson (minna.johansson@varha.fi)

puh. 050 463 1857

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.

You can reach the nurse round the clock by calling the ward's phone number. You can reach the doctor by submitting a call request. It is advisable to agree on the contact times in advance so that the doctor can brief him/herself with the patient's circumstances before calling. (As a rule, contacts are best suited after 1 p.m.) 

You can also make ana appointment to discuss matters related to the patient.

Ward telephone number 040 623 4147.

The visiting hours at the hospital are from 14.00 to 18.00.

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.