General Nurse Acute Admission Department

As a nurse, are you looking for a place where you stay sharp and where no shift is ever the same? Then you are in the right place at the AOA. Patients arrive acutely, their situation can change, and the follow-up of the admission often needs to be determined quickly. That unpredictability requires you to be able to perform under pressure and keep a cool head when multiple matters demand attention at the same time. Patients are usually admitted via the ER or an outpatient clinic and generally do not stay on the AOA for longer than 48 hours. During that period, investigations take place, a diagnosis is made, and treatment begins. You coordinate and provide nursing care, identify changes, and consult with the disciplines involved. Afterwards, the patient moves to another nursing ward or care institution, or returns home. The diverse clinical pictures make the work substantively broad. You use your knowledge and experience anew every day and continue to develop yourself because no situation is the same. Of course, you do not do this alone. Within the team of nurses, care assistants, and hosts and hostesses, we easily seek each other out, share knowledge, and help each other when needed. Furthermore, within the AOA, you can seek extra specialization and responsibility. Monitor care: the department has six monitor beds. These are staffed by nurses who have completed the Basic Acute Care (BAZ) training. After at least one year on the AOA, you can further develop yourself in this area. Ward management: daily, one of the nurses fulfills the role of STIP nurse. You then act as the link between the AOA and bed management and coordinate the inflow, throughput, and outflow of patients. Improving together: within the team, we share knowledge, help each other, and there is room for your ideas regarding patient care and work processes. At the AOA, your expertise is fully utilized: clinical reasoning, setting priorities, and taking charge when it counts.