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Nurses in the design process
A gallery of images of nurses working with design teams and the results of their work. Read the related article "Nurses make their rounds in health care design."
Full-scale departmental mock-ups, like this one for Akron Children's Hospital, allow nurses to give feedback before construction even begins. | Courtesy of HKS Inc./Blake Marvin
As a result of staff feedback, architects at Akron Children's Hospital were able to redesign the ambulatory surgery prep/post-anesthesia care unit three times in one day; they also decreased the emergency department square footage by 11 percent, for a savings of more than $1 million.
Nurses’ feedback on full-scale departmental mock-ups helped to make the design of Akron Children’s hospital safer and more efficient. | Courtesy of HKS Inc./Blake Marvin
Design professionals from EwingCole work with medical staff on a facility design. | Photo courtesy of EwingCole
Nurses have been instrumental in the design of hospital nurse stations at the Zuckerberg Pavilion in New Hyde Park, N.Y. | Northwell Health photo © Eduard Hueber/Archphoto.com
Decentralized nurses station's are part of an evolution based on nurse feedback. | Photos by Halkin/Mason Photography
Nurses' design recommendations were incorporated into patient rooms at the Roberts Pavilion in Camden, N.J. | Cooper University Healthcare photos by Halkin/Mason Photography
Marvina Williams, RN, Lean Black Belt at Perkins+Will uses hands-on simulation with a “kit of parts” at Intermountain Healthcare Alta View Hospital in Sandy, Utah, in determining the most efficient design concepts. | Photo courtesy of Perkins+Will, VCBO Architecture and Intermountain Healthcare
Full size mock-up rooms were created by VCBO architects to demonstrate the space for the Alta View Emergency Room staff to provide feedback to the Perkins+Will and VCBO teams in creating the ideal space.| Photo courtesy of Perkins+Will, VCBO Architecture and Intermountain Healthcare
Lean operational planning is integrated with the Perkins+Will architects and the Alta View surgical staff in evaluating the “7 flows of Healthcare.” | Photo courtesy of Perkins+Will, VCBO Architecture and Intermountain Healthcare