The hospital environment

Nightingale Ward
1. Physical environment
  1. Long wards
  2. Rows of beds
2. Social environment
  1. The way people related to each other
3. Psychological
  1. Experiences for patients and staff
4. Enabling
5. Disabling
Very different environment
Patients and hospital staff affected by the environmnt
Move towards four-bedded bays
Public and private spaces
1. Difficult to distinction
2. Access to spaces
More comfortable and patient centred
Attitudes to hospital patients
1. Treated with dignity and respect
2. Privacy is valued
  1. Personal space
3. Clearly exlained
4. Supportive and welcoming
5. Access to external areas
  1. Recreation and leisure facilites
Nurses view
1. Wards to functional
  1. space more flexible
2. stress and fatigue related to organastion and layout
3. Storage space
4. Climate
5. Meeting rooms and factilities
6. Security staff and patients
Evelina Hospital
1. purpose built
2. London
3. pictures and colours
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Resource summary

	Created by Charlie_eeyore almost 11 years ago