Your Hospital Stay

GUIDELINES

Patient Services Directory

NBM Hospital Patient Services Directory helps you navigate the hospital better. Inside you will find important hospital phone numbers, clinic locations, parking information, visiting hours, food services and much more.

What to Bring

If you are staying in the hospital overnight, we encourage you to bring your own personal care items such as soap, shampoo, combs, mouthwash, toothbrush, shaving kits, sanitary pads/incontinence products and tissues. As well, most of these items are available for purchase in the Volunteer Services Gift Shop. Please speak to your nurse or the unit coordinator for more information. Consider the following items:

• Blue hospital identification card
• Your health card
• Your current medications, including vitamins and other non-prescription drugs
• Your favorite pillow
• A good book, magazines or newspaper
• A pair of slippers
• A pen/pencil for writing

Valuables

Be involved in your health care

Patients and health care providers are partners in health care. Here are five common sense tips to engage patients in their own health care:

• 1. Be involved in your health care. Speak up if you have questions or concerns about your care.
• 2. Tell a member of your health care team about your past illnesses and your current health condition.
• 3. Bring all of your medicines with you when you go to the hospital or to a medical appointment.
• 4. Tell a member of your health care team if you have ever had an allergic or bad reaction to any medicine or food.
• 5. Make sure you know what to do when you go home from the hospital or from your medical appointment.

Patient meals

• Breakfast: 7:30 to 9 a.m.
• Lunch: 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
• Dinner: 4:45 to 6 p.m.