The work of an in-patient department

When patients are admitted to the hospital first of all they are received by a nurse on duty at the reception ward.

Those patients who are to be hospitalized have already received the direction from the polyclinic. The nurse on duty fills in patients’ case histories in which she writes down their names, age, place of work, occupation, address and the initial diagnosis made by a doctor in the polyclinic.

Then doctor on duty examines the hospitalized patients and gives his instruction what department and wards the patients are to be admitted.

At the in-patient departments of a hospital life begins early in the morning. The nurses on duty take patients’ temperature, give them intramuscular and intravenous injections, take stomach juice for analysis, apply cups and give all the prescribed remedies in the doses indicated by the ward doctors.

All the drugs have special labels: the names of drugs are indicated on them. Patients are not allowed to take the medicines themselves because some drugs are poisonous, the overdosages of some other drugs may cause unfavorable reactions and even death.

At about nine o’clock in the morning the doctors begin the daily rounds of the wards during which they examine all the patients. After the medical examination the doctors administer the patients different procedures: electrocardiograms are taken, laboratory analyses of blood, urine and gastric juice are made. Some patients are administered a bed regimen, others are allowed to walk; some are to follow a diet to relieve stomachache or prevent unfavorable results in case of stomach troubles. All the doctors always treat the patients with great attention and care. There is no doubt that such a hearty attitude of the doctors to the patients helps much in their recovery.

Children’s polyclinic

There is a wide network of medical institutions in Russia to protect the health of our children. One of them is the children’s polyclinic. The children’s polyclinics provide free medical treatment and prophylactic measures for children. These services are provided for children from the day of their birth till the day of finishing the secondary school.

The children’s polyclinics function in every inhabited area all over the country. Every polyclinic serves a definite area called a district. Any pediatrician of the polyclinic treats only a definite number of patients. That is why he knows his patients very well. At the local polyclinic every patient has a personal patient’s card filled in by his pediatrician. Everything about the patient – the diagnosis of the disease, the changes in the patient’s condition after treatment, the administrations made by the doctor, the course of the disease – is written down in the card.

Except the registry where the patient’s cards are kept every modern polyclinic has a number of departments or consulting rooms where doctors see their patients. In every children’s polyclinic you can find specialists in therapeutics, surgery, ophtalmotology, neurology, stomatology, infectious diseases, etc. Besides, every modern polyclinic has its X-ray room, physiotherapeutical room, procedure room and therapeutical physical training rooms.

The main purposes of the children’s polyclinics are prevention, diagnosis and treatment of children’s diseases.

The children’s polyclinics devote special attention to systematic medical examination of children. Constant medical observation of children gives fine results. The children’s polyclinics play an important role in the system of health services for children.