6 am to 8 am

• The patients that are having surgery or examination early in the day will be woken up.
• The day shift starts from 7 am. Morning medication is handed out.

8 am to 11 am

• Breakfast is served in the sitting room between 8 am and 8.45.
• Help with personal hygiene and making the bed is provided if necessary.
• A physiotherapist will help with training if necessary.

9 am to 3 pm

• Ward rounds.

12 pm to 12.30 pm

• Lunch is served in the sitting room and lunch medication is handed out.

12.30 pm to 14.30 pm

• Time to rest - We ask that this time is respected for the sake of your fellow patients.

3 pm

• The evening shift starts.

5 pm to 5.30 pm

• Dinner is served in the sitting room and medication is handed out.

20.30 pm

• Evening coffee/tea with bread.

11 pm

• The night shift starts.

If you have any questions, please ask the staff.

The ward consists of 20 single bedrooms with private bath and toilet.

The rooms are big enough for a relative to stay with the child during the length of hospitalisation.

We would like parents to help pick up food for bedridden children. There will be access to drinks and fruit in the sitting room in between the meals. Do not hesitate to supply yourself with this at any time.

If there are special wishes or needs between the meals that reach beyond the daily menu, it may be possible to 'conjure up something' in the kitchen.

This is often beneficial to especially smaller children.

The parent that is hospitalised with the child:

• will eat for free during meals.
• will have access to bed linens, towels, and the like during the stay.
• can use the showers in the room.
• should help keep the room in order, e.g. fold up the guest bed, carry used tableware for dishwashing, tidy up the bed etc.
• can stay overnight with the child in order to make the new and difficult experience as normal as possible to the child.

Siblings and friends may come to visit if they have not recently been exposed to infection, and if they do not currently have a children's disease or another contagious disease.

After the discharge we will send a description of your course of treatment to your general practitioner. If you do not want this done, we ask that you inform the staff about it yourself.

Children may react very differently to being hospitalized. It is for example only natural if the child berates, cries, withdraws him- or herself, or in other ways acts differently from when you are at home. Remember that it is after all a new situation the child is experiencing. The best you can do is to be together with the child as much as you possibly can. The child may still react differently from normal for a while after returning back home. Some children will follow their parents everywhere because they are afraid to be left alone.

You know the child best, so do not hesitate to speak with the personnel about problems like this so we can solve them together.

1. Ask if you have questions or need clarification on anything in relation to your child's treatment

It is important that you understand what your child is being examined for, what the doctors have found out so far, and which treatment the child is going to have. So please ask if there is anything you do not understand.

2. Tell us about the child’s medication and eating habits

It is a good idea to tell the personnel which kind of medicine the child takes – also alternative/herbal treatment, dietary supplements, natural products, and whether you are following any dietary guidelines. You should also let us know if the child is allergic to some kinds of medication, foods, or other things.

3. Write down along the way

If possible, it is a good idea to keep a log book of what you experience while the child is ill. The log book may help you to remember what you experience and what you want to ask to the personnel. The log book may also be a help for you afterwards in order to process the experience.

4. More ears hear better

It is a good idea to have two adults present when going to interviews concerning examinations and results. It is an advantage that more people have heard what the doctor has said, so all nuances are included and you are more people to remember and understand what has been said.

5. Make agreements

Make agreements with the personnel regarding your mutual collaboration. How the child should be informed and prepared for examinations and treatment, and whether you or the personnel should give the prescribed medicine to the child.

6. Confirm your child

Check the name and personal identification number of your child together with the personnel every time the child is examined, treated, or receives medicine.

7. Hear about the surgery

If the child is going to have surgery, it is a good idea to talk with the surgeon about what is going to happen. Sometimes, just before the surgery, the surgeon will make a mark with a magic marker pen on the child’s body where the surgery is going to be performed.

8. Tell the personnel if something is painful

It is important that the personnel knows the child’s symptoms of pain. Also if they occur in other places of the body than where the child is diseased.

9. When going home

It is a good idea to ask how the treatment should continue when you are going home – what to pay attention to at home, and which possibilities you have in case of questions.

10. Know the child’s medication

You should know the name of your child’s medication, how it works, how long it lasts, how the child should take it, and whether it has any side effects. Get a list of all the different kinds of medication for the child. Ask if there are any particular types of foods or drinks that can affect the treatment. Possibly write down the answers.