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Our Nursing is based on the MHH mission statement and the nursing concept of Hannover Medical School. It is planned, carried out and evaluated in a patient-oriented manner, taking into account the psychosocial situation. We are responsible for a certain number of patients within the scope of nursing care.

Accommodation is provided in single, double and multi-bed rooms, which are generally allocated according to medical criteria. We are happy to accommodate individual requests.

Our nursing team consists of full-time and part-time qualified nurses (some with additional qualifications such as practice supervisors). Participation in internal and external training courses is an integral part of our Human Resources.
New colleagues are introduced to their new tasks in accordance with an induction guideline developed by our ward, which guarantees our patients a high standard of safety and care. We guarantee continuous care by working in a three-shift system in order to restore the well-being and health of our patients through interdisciplinary cooperation.

Our teams are integrated into a job rotation concept with wards 27 and 37 so that our team members also get to know the specialist characteristics of the other disciplines.

We offer work shadowing for nurses from other areas, as well as nursing internships for paramedics from the fire department and medical students. These must be registered with the Nursing management.

The focus of our nursing work is on the care and treatment of patients with complex traumatological injuries and patients suffering from spinal injuries and tumors of the musculoskeletal system, bones and soft tissues.

Common clinical pictures:

• Diseases and injuries of the spine
• Fractures of the extremities and pelvis
• Hand and foot surgery
• Polytrauma (patients with multiple serious injuries)
• Tumors of the musculoskeletal system, bones and soft tissue
• Rheumatoid orthopaedics
• Soft tissue injuries, joint endoprosthetics (hip and knee)

Holistic care is provided through nursing measures such as

• Treatment care and dressing changes
• Advice and support for patients and relatives
• Basic care and positioning measures
• Preparing and serving meals
• Mobilization under difficult conditions
• Perioperative Nursing
• Postoperative monitoring
• Prophylaxis and special contracture prophylaxis
• Psychosocial care
• Special pain therapy (in cooperation with the Clinical Department of Anesthesiology)
• Handling and control of positioning aids
• Dealing with fixation aids, orthoses and walking aids
  

Frequent diagnostic and therapeutic measures:

• Preoperative routine examinations (blood sampling, ECG, X-ray)
• Sonographies and punctures
• Special beds for decubitus prophylaxis and therapy
• Special radiological examinations (CT, MRI, angiography)
• Vacuum dressings / therapy
  

For questions prior to admission to the Clinical Department of Trauma Surgery

• Please contact the admission management team on +49 511 532-36168

The VOR inpatient admission day

You enter the MHH through the main entrance and go to the central patient admission department, where you will be admitted as a pre-inpatient to ward 17.

As a patient of the Clinical Department of Trauma surgery , please go to the Surgery Center/Day Clinic on Ward 27 after admission and report to the "Inpatient Admission" room.

If you need help, please contact the volunteer "green ladies and gentlemen" in the registration area, who will also accompany you to the ward if necessary.

This is followed by various examinations and, if not already carried out during the consultation, the anesthesia consultation and surgical explanation.

The day of the operation

Admission on the day of surgery takes place in the surgery center/day clinic on ward 27. Please report to the "Inpatient Admission " room between 6.15 and 6.30 a.m., where you will be admitted for administrative purposes.

Once you have been called for surgery, you will be allocated a bed, put on the surgical clothing provided and taken to the operating theater.

After your operation, you will be taken to the destination ward, where your valuables and bag will be collected and returned to you at the destination ward.

Elective patients are treatedby the head physician and his team on ward 18.

Ward 73 is the intensive care unit of the Clinical Department of Trauma Surgery. It mainly treats severely injured patients and patients following major operations for post-operative monitoring.

• You enter the MHH through the main entrance (building K6) and walk through the shopping street to elevator node_A.
• Take the elevator to floor 7 and exit to the left.
• This will take you directly to our front door.