The hospital environment

The hospital environment

1. Nightingale Ward

   • Physical environment
     • Long wards
     • Rows of beds
   • Social environment
     • The way people related to each other
   • Psychological
     • Experiences for patients and staff
   • Enabling
   • Disabling

2. Very different environment

3. Patients and hospital staff affected by the environmnt

4. Move towards four-bedded bays

5. Public and private spaces

   • Difficult to distinction
   • Access to spaces

6. More comfortable and patient centred

7. Attitudes to hospital patients

   • Treated with dignity and respect
   • Privacy is valued
     • Personal space
   • Clearly exlained
   • Supportive and welcoming
   • Access to external areas
     • Recreation and leisure facilites

8. Nurses view

   • Wards to functional
     • space more flexible
   • stress and fatigue related to organastion and layout
   • Storage space
   • Climate
   • Meeting rooms and factilities
   • Security staff and patients

9. Evelina Hospital

   • purpose built
   • London
   • pictures and colours
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