Design of a Cancer Infusion Center: Results from a Pre- and Post-Occupancy Evaluation.

Purpose: The current study performed a post-occupancy evaluation on a new cancer infusion center with pod-like layout and compared results to a pre-occupancy evaluation to investigate the impact of different cancer infusion center designs on staff efficiency and patient and staff satisfaction.

Background: The new cancer infusion center opened in October 2020 and replaced two previously existing infusion centers, in the same healthcare system.

Methods: The study used a similar mixed-method approach as the pre-occupancy research, which included staff shadowing, medication delivery shadowing, and staff and patient questionnaires.

Associations of Patient and Staff Outcomes With Inpatient Unit Designs Incorporating Decentralized Caregiver Workstations: A Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence.

Objectives:: This systematic literature review synthesizes and assesses quality of research addressing associations of patient and staff outcomes with inpatient unit designs incorporating decentralized caregiver workstations.

Background:: A current hospital design trend is to include decentralized caregiver workstations on inpatient units. A review of literature addressing decentralized unit design is needed.

Impact of place on people and process: the integration of research on the built environment in the planning and design of critical care areas.

What is the role of the built environment in healing? What aspects of the built environment promote healing, staff efficiency, and patient safety? How can we know if these assertions hold true? Can scientific research help us validate these assumptions? These questions are important to explore, especially for our most vulnerable patients-those in critical care settings. This article explores the historical influences on health care design, reveals how the current health care transformation movement has accelerated the incorporation of elements of the built environment into patient safety and quality improvement effort, discusses how healing environments are constructed, and examines how the literature of health care and health care design organizations have incorporated the impact of the built environment on patient, family, and staff outcomes and satisfaction. Finally, a case study of applying "design hypotheses" and a scientific method to the design of an intensive care unit setting is offered.

Centralized vs. decentralized nursing stations: effects on nurses' functional use of space and work environment.

Objective: Evidence-based findings of the effects of nursing station design on nurses' work environment and work behavior are essential to improve conditions and increase retention among these fundamental members of the healthcare delivery team. The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate how nursing station design (i.e.

Integrating healthcare design research into practice: setting a new standard of practice.

It seems safe to conclude that nearly 150 years ago, "the lady with the lamp," Florence Nightingale, set a course that practice-based healthcare researchers continue to follow today. In her book, Notes on Nursing (1860), Nightingale identified light, ventilation, noise, and sanitation as elements of the environment that affected the well-being of soldiers in her care. Today, we attempt to study these same relationships: those that exist between the built environment of healthcare settings, and the health and well-being of the users of these spaces.