The nursing staff form the largest group of employees at the St. Joseph Hospital. And they are the ones you'll have the most contact with.

Your well-being and your health are very important to our nursing staff. The expert individual care given to our patients is an important factor in convalescence and recovery. It also represents a measure of our performance and of the quality of our hospital. The nurses see their most important task as supporting and helping you during your stay in hospital. They endeavour to treat the personality of each individual with respect. Social, religious, cultural and psychological needs are all taken into account.

Being ill and worrying about health problems are crisis situations in which people need help and support. You may well find it difficult coming to terms with your illness. It can be helpful to inform the nursing staff of your anxieties, feelings and needs and to ask them the questions that are important to you. They will certainly try to meet your wishes. However, please be patient and understanding if they cannot always do this immediately.

We are faced with huge demands, particularly when caring for seriously or terminally ill patients. Working with sensitivity is an evident strength of our nursing staff. One of their most important tasks is to support these patients through the last days and weeks of their illness, to provide assistance to family members and to respect religious and cultural beliefs.

Our nursing staff hope that you get well quickly and are able to return to the comfort of your own home. We therefore concentrate on patient-oriented and "activating" care.

Only a collaborative effort towards improved well-being can lead to success. Achieving this goal requires effective collaboration with you and – as far as is necessary and desired – with your relatives as well.

Your cooperation also requires understanding as the day-to-day activities in our hospital are very different to those in your home.

In addition to their bedside work our nursing staff are also busy in various other functional areas, e.g. the operating theatre, assisting in delivering anaesthetics, endoscopy, ECG and outpatient clinics.

Our nursing staff attend training and professional development courses for their areas of activity on an on-going basis so that patients can be confident of receiving the most up-to-date medical and nursing care.