Influence of Nursing-Unit Design On the Activities and Subjective Feelings of Nursing Personnel

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-334 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franklin Becker

While considerable attention has been paid to how the design of nursing units can help reduce nurse fatigue, improve safety, and reduce nosocomial infection rates, much less attention has been paid to how nursing unit design influences informal communication patterns, on-the-job learning, and job stress and satisfaction. Yet the literature consistently cites communication among diverse caregivers as a critical component for improving quality of care. This paper reviews relevant literature related to nursing unit design and communication patterns, and suggests an evidence-based design research agenda grounded in the concept of “organizational ecology” for increasing our understanding of how hospital design can contribute to improved quality of care.


2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaodong Xuan ◽  
Zongfei Li ◽  
Xixi Chen

Objectives: To create opportunities to increase nursing staff’s satisfaction and operational efficiency and eventually improve nurses’ experiences through better design in unit layout. Background: The majority of research performed on nursing units in China only focused on the spatial design itself, and few studies examined the nursing unit empirically based on nurses’ experience. Nursing units need to be designed with understanding nurses’ behavior and experience in China. Method: A mixed-method approach was conducted in four double-corridor nursing units in China. Observation and interview data were collected to explore how physical environments for managing administrative duties, medications, and caring patient were used in nursing units. Results: The most frequent activities were communication, medication, and patient-care activities. The places in which nurses spent the most of theirs working times were the nurse station (NS), patient room, workstation on wheels (WoW), and medication room. The important clinical work spaces were the patient room, NS, WoW, medication room, doctor’s office, disposal room, examining room, and back corridor. The important traffic linkages were between NS and medication room, patient room and WoW, and medication room and patient room. Conclusions: This article revealed the frequency of nurse activities; how they spent their time; how they use the clinical spaces; identified important clinical spaces, linkages, and driver of inefficiency in nursing work and nursing unit design; and finally generated recommendations for double-corridor nursing unit design in China which can be used by medical planner, hospital administrator.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 53-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Cai ◽  
Yi Lu ◽  
Hugo Sheward

Objectives: To provide a historical review on the evolution of contemporary Chinese nursing unit design and contextual factors that drive the design and changes. Background: China is undergoing a major healthcare construction boom. A systematic investigation of the characteristics and development of Chinese nursing unit design is warranted to help U.S. healthcare designers to provide design that fits the local context. Methods: The investigation is developed in two phases. The first phase is a large-scale spatial analysis of 176 Chinese acute care unit layouts from three periods: 1989–1999, 1999–2004, and 2005–2015. In addition to qualitative descriptions of the nursing unit typologies, the percentage of various typologies, patient room (PR) types, the number of beds, visibility from nurse station (NS) to PRs, and access to natural light during each period were evaluated quantitatively. The second phase defined key factors that shape Chinese nursing unit design through expert interviews. Results: Significant differences were found between design in these three periods. Chinese nursing unit size has continuously grown in the number of beds. Most PRs have shifted from three-bed to double-bed rooms. Most Chinese hospitals use single corridor, racetrack, and mutated racetrack layouts. Mutated racetrack has taken over single corridor as the dominant configuration. The access to southern sunlight remains important. The average visibility from NS to some PRs is restricted by the preferences of allocating most PRs on the south side of a unit. Conclusions: Chinese nursing unit design has undergone transformations to fit the local cultural, socioeconomic context and staffing model.


1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 25???30
Author(s):  
Judy Grubbs ◽  
Stephen J. Short
Keyword(s):  

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debajyoti Pati ◽  
Thomas E. Harvey ◽  
Pamela Redden ◽  
Barbara Summers ◽  
Sipra Pati

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-60
Author(s):  
Shinta Prawitasari

Pelayanan keperawatan harus berfokus pada keselamatan pasien baik dalam tatanan rumah sakit, komunitas maupun perawatan di rumah. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendapatkan gambaran tentang hubungan beban kerja perawat pelaksana dengan keselamatan pasien di Rumah Sakit Husada Jakarta. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif korelasi dengan pendekatan restrospective, descriptive cross sectional. Sampel yang digunakan berjumlah 93 data dinas perawat pelaksana dan 93 dokumen rekam medik. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan proporsi beban kerja tinggi pada perawat pelaksana paling banyak pada bulan Januari 53.7%, diikuti oleh bulan Mei 51.6%, Juli 39.8% dan Maret 35.3%. Sedangkan beban kerja adekuat pada perawat pelaksana paling banyak terjadi pada bulan Maret 64.5%, Juli 60,2%, Mei 48,4%, dan Januari 46,2%. Terdapat hubungan yang bermakna antara beban kerja perawat pelaksana dengan keselamatan pasien. Departemen keperawatan harus memperhatikan peningkatan pasien untuk setiap unit keperawatan dan menggunakan data untuk menghitung tenaga keperawatan setiap shift, untuk mengalokasikan tenaga keperawatan, dan mengawasi sebagai jadwal.Perlunya dikembangkan budaya keselamatan dan mengikis budaya menghukum, memilih champion sebagai motor penggerak keselamatan pasien serta tidak membebani perawat dengan pekerjaan non keperawatan. Nursing services should focus on patient safety in both the order of the hospital, community and home care. The purpose of this study is to describe the relationship of nursing workload and patient safety at Husada Hospital Jakarta. This research is descriptive correlation with retrospective approach, descriptive cross sectional. This study used 93 samples of nursing schedule data and 93 patient documents. The result shows that proportion of high nursing workload was in January 53,7%, May 51,6%, July 39,8%, and March 35,3%.Proportion of adequate nursing workload was in March 64,5%, July 60,2%, May 48,4%, and January 46,2%. The proportion of patient safety was 19,4%. There is a significant association between the workload of nurses with patient safety. The department of nursing should assess the trend of patient acuity for each nursing unit and using the data to calculate of nursing personnel every shift, to allocate nursing personnel, and supervise as schedule. Develop the culture of safety and eliminate punitive culture from her unit, choosing the champion for patient safety and eliminate non nursing tasks.


2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 573-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Cai ◽  
Craig Zimring

This study attempts to understand cultural impacts on nursing unit design through a comparative study on Chinese nursing unit typologies and their U.S. counterparts. The focus is to investigate whether seemingly westernized Chinese nursing units still retained certain characteristics of Chinese socio-cultural preferences; and how configurational differences of Chinese and American nursing unit design reflect the different work styles and organizational communication styles driven by national culture. This study’s contributions are twofold. Firstly, it demonstrates the impact of national culture on nursing unit design. The spatial configuration is a manifesto of culture and is congruent with culture. Secondly, from a methodological point of view, this study has translated abstract cultural schema, organizational constructs, and complex spatial relationships into quantitative spatial metrics. It makes the comparison of various building configurations from different cultures possible. The method and conceptual framework described here can be applied to understanding cultural differences in other building types as well.


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