While efforts to improve the patient experience may be the
primary driver behind healthcare design projects today, staff satisfaction
isn’t far behind. Healthcare worker recruitment and retention is a critical
issue for any organization, as is physician and nurse burnout.
To answer those needs, new facilities boast environments
that offer opportunities for both staff respite and wellness in addition to
modern workspaces that support collaboration and team-based care delivery.
Additional considerations are made for everything from
safety and security to efficiency and communication.
Below, find some recent trend stories and project profiles
covering the varying ways staff needs are being addressed via design in
healthcare environments.
How
Can Design Help Address Clinician Burnout?
This industry needs to promote design solutions that address
the causes and effects of clinician fatigue, stress, and disenchantment to
provide a better future for staff and patients.
Healthcare Design For Introverts And
Extroverts: Staff Considerations
If the population is divided equally between introverts and
extroverts, how is healthcare design addressing the needs of both? This blog
series explores the issue, first looking at provisions for hospital staff.
Voices
of Veterans, Staff Shape New VA Hospital
NBBJ enlisted the help of more than 100 veterans and
conducted 70 hours of observation to guide the design of the new Southeast
Louisiana Veterans Health Care System Replacement Medical Center in New
Orleans.
Vision
Realized at NewYork-Presbyterian David H. Koch Center
The new
734,000-square-foot center answers goals to transform ambulatory care and
challenge conventional design approaches to large, urban facilities.
What
Corporate America Can Teach Healthcare About Staff Satisfaction
As healthcare continues to move toward being a
consumer-based service, focus has appropriately been placed on the experience
and satisfaction of patients and families. To achieve positive results,
healthcare has borrowed many ideas from retail and hospitality. But what about
the staff? Who is caring for the caregivers? Can these same principles
apply to their satisfaction? There’s much that healthcare can learn from
companies like Google, Microsoft, Virgin Atlantic, and Abercrombie & Fitch.
A research team is deep into a four-year learning lab to
improve the surgical environment for staff and patients.
Response
Time: Re-thinking ED Design
The ongoing evolution of emergency care delivery,
technology, and patient and staff expectations is requiring forward-thinking ED
designs.
Today’s NICUs are being designed with an enhanced focus on
baby care and family satisfaction, while integrating operational
efficiency for staff.
Entering a new market for Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital
for Children came with the opportunity to refine existing outpatient operations
and create a site-specific design solution.
Searching
For The Perfect Nursing Station Design
Looking to add to the body of research on nursing station
design and the effects of different models on nurse communication, care
processes, and patient outcomes, researchers and staff at the
University of Kentucky teamed up with University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington,
Ky.
Preventive
Measures: Designing For Safety In The ED
To head off the potential for violence in emergency
departments, designers must balance care delivery needs with solutions that
achieve a calm, secure environment.
