Hospitering for municipal employees in Agder
Hospitering at Sørlandet Hospital is a limited stay where you, as a hospitant, participate in the department's daily routines, without having independent responsibility.
What can you expect?
As a hospitant with us, you will primarily learn a lot about how we work and are organized in the specialist healthcare services. Our hospitering programs reflect parts of the treatment and services Sørlandet Hospital provides.
When can you, as a municipal employee, hospiter?
Our various offerings last 3-4 days and are held on fixed weeksin spring and autumn.
Apply for hospitering at Sørlandet Hospital
Application deadline for spring hospitering: December 15th. Application deadline for autumn hospitering: June 15th.
Who can apply
This applies to municipal employees who in their work are involved in collaboration regarding patients. The following professions can apply: Nurses, special needs educators, public health nurses, midwives, social workers, psychologists, groups with 3-year higher education in child welfare, preschool teachers working within drug/psychiatry, therapeutic assistants, healthcare assistants, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and institutional cooks.
See "target group" in the overview below.
Purpose
- Increased knowledge within one or more relevant fields/work areas
- Increased understanding of the administrative levels
- Increased knowledge of people it is natural to collaborate with
- Increased knowledge of how collaboration can be improved
- Increased knowledge of comprehensive patient pathways
Overview of departments you can hospiter at
Arendal
The acute admissions unit's main task is to ensure that patients are examined, stabilized, and given necessary treatment as quickly as possible, and to provide care and support tailored to the patient and their relatives' situation.
As a hospitant with us, you will primarily learn to make quick assessments and take emergency measures. You will learn to observe vital signs, measure objective parameters, and gather medical history. You will also learn the use of procedures, which is an important part of treating the acutely ill patient.
You will also gain insight into the collaboration we have with ambulance personnel, the on-call physician service, and other units/specialties that work around the patient in the acute admissions unit.
We will provide you with professional input in the form of teaching/conversations about practical solutions, various procedures, and principles. For you to get the most out of the hospitering, you must be aware of what is important to you regarding your own work situation and benefit.
The first and last day you will report to the day shift. We want to share as much knowledge as possible with you, and experience shows that our patient flow/number of admissions increases later in the day and in the afternoon. Therefore, you should expect a late shift for a couple of days in the middle of the week.
Our hospitering program lasts 4 days (Mon-Thurs) in the current week. You will receive a final program with shift schedule when you are assigned a place.
Target group for our hospitering program:Nurse.
The Department for Treatment of Drug Addiction and Dependency (ARA) is a treatment offer for patients with drug and dependency problems and their relatives. We offer assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for people who have problems or dependency on drugs or gambling. We also offer couples, family, and individual therapy for families and their relatives.
Our hospitering program lasts three days (Mon-Wed) in the current week. As a hospitant with us, you will spend one day at our outpatient clinic in Arendal, one day at the detoxification unit at Bjorbekk (Arendal), and one day at ARA's inpatient unit in Byglandsfjord.
During the stay, we will give you professional knowledge about drug and dependency problems, our treatment offers, and referral and collaboration opportunities.
You will receive a final program when you are assigned a place.
Target group for our hospitering program:Nurse, therapeutic assistant.
As a hospitant with us, you can primarily learn a lot / exchange experiences about the geriatric patient, and you will follow one of the employees in various activities related to the patient's assessment and treatment.
The geriatric patient can be found at three units in Arendal:
- Geriatric unit, medical department 2C
- Orthogeriatric unit, surgical department 2C
- Outpatient clinic for aging and memory
During the 3 days (Mon-Wed) in the hospitering week, you will visit the Geriatric unit at the medical department, the Orthogeriatric unit, and the Outpatient clinic for aging and memory.
You will receive a final program with shift schedule when you are assigned a place.
Target group for our hospitering program:Nurse, special needs educator.
Lung section UC at the Medical Department is an inpatient ward where most admissions are acute.
As a hospitant with us, you will primarily learn to observe, take action, and provide care to acutely ill lung patients.
Our most common lung diagnoses are: Cancer pulm, COPD, emphysema/empyema, pneumonia, and pulmonary embolism.
Since you, as a hospitant, are primarily on UC, the focus will be on the lung patient, and with us you will learn/exchange experiences about observations, clinical assessments, measures, and care that are carried out in relation to this patient group.
On the cardiology section, the most common diagnoses are heart attack, heart failure, pulmonary edema, arrhythmias, chest pain, observations after angiography/PCI, and the lung patient who needs BiPAP treatment.
Our hospitering program lasts 4 days (Mon-Thurs) in the current week. You will receive a final program with shift schedule when you are assigned a place.
Target group for our hospitering program:Nurse, special needs educator.
As a hospitant with us, you can gain insight into the work with patients who have a stoma, acute abdominal pain, appendicitis, pancreatitis, gallstones, gallbladder inflammation, diverticulitis, cancer in the stomach/intestine, and stoma patients.
In addition to handling acute conditions, we also treat general infections, gastrointestinal diseases, liver disease, bleeding in the stomach/intestine, electrolyte disturbances, malnutrition, and dehydration.
Some relevant procedures:
- Stoma: care and treatment
- NEWS
- Blood gas/astrup,
- Venflon/CVC - use, care, and observation
- Various IV transfusions - blood, antibiotics, fluids, and nutrition
- Medication management
- Volume - and syringe pumps
- Various drains
- Surgical patient
- Isolation - and infection control routines
Surgical department 3C in Arendal, in collaboration with the surgical and medical outpatient clinic, has created a 4-day (Mon-Thurs) hospitering program.
You will receive a final program when you are assigned a place.
Target group for our hospitering program:Nurse, special needs educator.
As a hospitant at the hospital kitchen, you will participate in and receive an introduction to the kitchen's operation and tasks. Assessment of nutritional status is part of the clinical examination and treatment offer. All adult patients are assessed for nutritional risk.
Food offer at Sørlandet Hospital:
We work according to the guidelines in the Nutrition Handbook. The kitchen's goal is four meals per day, plus access to snacks.
• Breakfast
• Lunch. Two daily options are offered, preferably one meal with meat and one with fish
• Afternoon snack
• Dinner, possibly with soup
Special diets: Distinguishing between diets and allergens
We see diets as our task to prepare so that the patient can safely eat.
Allergens are our duty to mark clearly, but the patient's duty to check out and avoid.
Target group:Institutional cook
As a hospitant with us, you will gain insight into mental illnesses that require assessment and treatment in a hospital department, and we will provide instruction in the governing legislation for our business in addition to theory about some of our treatment methods.
PSA is the specialized hospital offer within psychiatry for the adult population in the Agder counties. The department has units located in Arendal and Kristiansand. PSA is one of a total of nine departments within the Clinic for Mental Health - Psychiatry and Addiction Treatment at Sørlandet Hospital Trust.
We ensure immediate assistance services, assessment, and diagnosis that must take place with inpatient stays. We provide planned and targeted treatment offers to patients with severe eating disorders. We offer treatment to patients with severe mental illness combined with extensive drug abuse and provide treatment to patients who are sentenced by the legal system to psychiatric treatment.
Acute unit A, B, general psychiatric unit C, and psychosis unit D in Arendal collaborate on the hospitering program. The program lasts 4 days (Mon-Thurs) in the current week.
You will receive a final program when you are assigned a place.
Target group for our hospitering program:Nurse, special needs educator, therapeutic assistant.
As a hospitant with us, you will meet patients who have incurable cancer and who have finished treatment. These are patients who have a short life expectancy with complex physical, psychological, social, and/or existential issues. The goal is to provide them with the best possible palliative care.
Our section has close collaboration with the palliative unit in Kristiansand and interdisciplinary collaboration with physiotherapist, occupational therapist, social worker, "children as relatives," and priest.
The Medical Department Post UC, in collaboration with the oncological outpatient clinic and the ambulatory palliative team, has created the hospitering program that lasts 4 days (Mon-Thurs).
You will receive a final program with shift schedule when you are assigned a place.
Target group for our hospitering program:Nurse, special needs educator.
As a hospitant with us, you can learn about patient groups with postoperative wound infections, chronic leg ulcers, abscesses, cancer-related wounds/radiation damage, autoimmune wounds, diabetic wounds/complications, and patients who need to be isolated due to suspicion or confirmed infection in the form of ESBL, MRSA, VRE, Clostridium/gastroenteritis.
At the wound outpatient clinic, we have a primary focus on assessing and treating patients with chronic wounds, while through the medical outpatient clinic we convey knowledge about relevant aids, treatment methods, lifestyle advice, and other relevant topics to people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Some relevant procedures:
- BT, pulse, tp, RF, sao2, TILT
- Blood gas/astrup
- Venflon/CVC - use, care, and observation
- Various IV transfusions - blood, antibiotics, fluids, and nutrition
- Medication management
- VAC- pumps
- Volume - and syringe pumps
- Various drains
- Wound treatment
- Isolation - and infection control routines
Surgical department 3C in Arendal, in collaboration with the surgical and medical outpatient clinic, has created a 4-day (Mon-Thurs) hospitering program.
You will receive a final program when you are assigned a place.
Target group for our hospitering program:Nurse, special needs educator.
Flekkefjord
The acute admissions unit's main task is to ensure that patients are examined, stabilized, and given necessary treatment as quickly as possible, and to provide care and support tailored to the patient and their relatives' situation.
As a hospitant with us, you will primarily learn to make quick assessments and take emergency measures. You will learn to observe vital signs, measure objective parameters, and gather medical history. You will also learn the use of procedures, which is an important part of treating the acutely ill patient.
You will also gain insight into the collaboration we have with ambulance personnel, the on-call physician service, and other units/specialties that work around the patient in the acute admissions unit.
We will provide you with professional input in the form of teaching/conversations about practical solutions, various procedures, and principles. For you to get the most out of the hospitering, you must be aware of what is important to you regarding your own work situation and benefit.
The first and last day you will report to the day shift. We want to share as much knowledge as possible with you, and experience shows that our patient flow/number of admissions increases later in the day and in the afternoon. Therefore, you should expect a late shift for a couple of days in the middle of the week.
Our hospitering program lasts 4 days (Mon-Thurs). Target group: nurses. You will receive a final program with shift schedule when you are assigned a place.
Target group for our hospitering program:Nurse
As a hospitant with us, you will gain insight into our offer within assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illnesses.
DPS Lister has three locations:
- Flekkefjord
- Farsund
- Kvinesdal
We have two outpatient clinics in Flekkefjord and Farsund. In Kvinesdal, we have an inpatient unit, FACT team, acute ambulatory team (AAT), day unit with a focus on physical activity, and an anxiety team, individual job support (IPS), and various group treatments.
Our hospitering offer lasts 4 days: Monday and Tuesday at Vollan in Kvinesdal, Wednesday at the psychiatric outpatient clinic in Farsund, and Thursday at the outpatient clinic in Flekkefjord.
You will receive a final program when you are assigned a place.
Target group for our hospitering program:Nurse, special needs educator, therapeutic assistant, psychologist
As a hospitant with us, we primarily want to give you insight into the follow-up of orthopedic and general surgical patients.
The surgical inpatient ward is divided into 3, with orthopedic, general surgical, and gynecological sections. The outpatient clinic receives patients in surgery, orthopedics, gynecology, and wounds.
During the 4 days you hospiter, you will receive instruction from the hygiene nurse, urotherapist, and anesthesiologist about relevant topics. You will follow nurses and physiotherapists in their work with patients. We will particularly focus on the hospital's role in collaboration with municipal healthcare services.
Some relevant topics you can learn more about:
- Mobilization of orthopedic patients
- Wound treatment
- Practical nursing procedures such as administering intravenous infusions, inserting urinary catheters, stoma care, treatment of wound drains
- The outpatient patient
The surgical department has developed a hospitering program together with the outpatient clinic.
The program lasts 4 days (Mon-Thurs) in the current week.
Target group: Nurse, special needs educator.
You will receive a final program with shift schedule when you are assigned a place.
Target group for our hospitering program:Nurse, special needs educator.
As a hospitant with us, you can primarily learn about and exchange experiences regarding observations, measures, and care for acutely ill patients, e.g., with nephrological, rheumatic, and gastroenterological conditions. You will be able to accompany patients to the gastrolab and participate in treatment.
You will gain insight into how the diabetes nurse works on the ward and how patients are followed up at the diabetes outpatient clinic.
Our hospitering program lasts 4 days (Mon-Thurs).
- You will receive a final program when you are assigned a place.
- Target group for our hospitering program:
- Nurse, special needs educator, healthcare assistant (pilot 2025)
- Infection department
As a hospitant with us, you can primarily learn a lot / exchange experiences about infection control. We dare to say that we are good at precisely that – and we would like to share/find good solutions based on this knowledge!
The Infection Department has close collaboration with e.g. the acute admissions unit, radiology, microbiology, orthopedic, and surgical departments.
We treat patients who need to be isolated, patients with diarrhea, vomiting, or suspicion of/confirmed infectious viral conditions, chronic carriers of MR