Preparing for a hospital admission
- Bring to your admission
- Answer questions before admission
- Surgery or examination under anesthesia
- Arrange aftercare
- Moving
- Mixed nursing
- Medicines
- Admission interview
- On the nursing ward
- Hospital employees
The information on this page will help you prepare as best as possible for your hospital admission.
Important
- Read our corona rules before your admission
Bring to your admission
- insurance certificate
- a valid ID: driver’s license, ID card, passport or foreign document
- an appointment card (if you have one)
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an up-to-date overview of your medicines. You can request this from your doctor.
Convenient to take with you
- your own walker or wheelchair, with your name and address on it
- comfortable clothes for the day
- nightwear
- toiletries
- comfortable shoes
- underwear
- reading glasses, contact lenses
- tray for dentures
- book, magazine, game
Surgery or examination under anesthesia
If you have to undergo an operation or examination under anesthesia, we first look at how we can do this safely. We call this a perioperative screening.
Moving
In the period before your admission, try to keep moving at your own level as much as possible. Walking short distances or climbing stairs a little more often can help. We know from research that patients who are admitted in a better condition can go home faster and are back to their old level sooner.
Medicines
- Do you use medicines? Then take it with you to the hospital in its original packaging. Ask your doctor for an up-to-date medication overview.
- It is possible that you will receive one or more medication(s) during your admission.
- Only use your own medicines in consultation with your doctor: certain combinations of medicines can be harmful.
- You can ask the nurses or doctors about your medicines.
- Want to know more about your medicines? Then read the package leaflet(s)
Admission interview
A nurse from the department will hold an admission interview with you. During this conversation, let us know:
- whether you are hypersensitive or allergic to certain substances, foods or medicines
- whether you are on a diet
On the nursing ward
- In the department you will receive an identity band on your wrist so that you are always recognizable.
- The nursing wards have several rooms for two, four or eight people. Apart from the (1st and 2nd) class rooms, there are group bathrooms and toilets.
- Do not take unnecessary items such as money and jewelry with you.
- THE HOSPITAL AND STAFF ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR LOSS!
Daily schedule
Your stay in the hospital is dominated by the examination and treatment of your condition. Here you can read a global breakdown of the day, but this can differ per department.
- Morning: Around 08:00 you will have your breakfast. If necessary, a nurse will help you with your care and treatment. The nurse will perform various checks, such as taking your temperature and blood pressure.
- You will receive a hot meal between 12:00 and 13:00.
- You can have examinations in the morning and afternoon, if necessary.
- In the morning and in the afternoon you can receive visitors depending on the current COVID-19 measures that are adjusted from time to time.
- If you are not bedridden you can also go to other places in the hospital such as the garden. Always notify the nurses when you leave the ward.
- Dinner is served in the ward between 18:00 and 19:00.
- We strive for peace and quiet in the ward from 22:00. In that case, we ask that you no longer use high-beam lights or television in your room.
Hospital employees
You will meet several employees on a nursing ward
- A medical specialist is always responsible for your medical treatment. This is your primary care provider. You will hear from the nurse or ward doctor who your primary practitioner is.
- The ward doctor will visit you from Monday to Friday, together with an intern and a nurse. We call this the doctor’s visit. Think in advance which questions you want to ask the doctor and, if necessary, write them down.
