Facility design and planning to improve nurses' effectiveness in administering care to fulltime residents of nursing homes

摘要

The assumption underlying this study is that a spatially well planned andappropriately furnished nursing home facility will help the nurses to perform theirwork more effectively and accordingly lead to more satisfaction for the residents.Research in the forms of a literature review, a movie analysis, and a field study ofnursing homes in Germany and the USA, including plan annotations andobservational mapping, trace study analyses and survey techniques, was conductedand revealed an unexpected urgent need for nursing home design improvement,especially in the U.S.The research results led to the development of a catalogue of patterns whichare useful in the design and planning of a nursing home to improve nurses’effectiveness in administering care to fulltime residents of nursing homes.With the help of the developed patterns, suggestions for building renovationsof two of the researched nursing homes, one American and one German, were given.