| Title |
A Study on the Nurses Need for the Planning in Children’s Hospital |
| Authors |
김혜신(Kim, Hye-shin) ; 박수빈(Park, Soo-Been) |
| DOI |
http://dx.doi.org/10.14774/JKIID.2016.25.4.105 |
| Keywords |
Children’s hospital ; Healthcare design ; Nurse ; Ward |
| Abstract |
Nurses in a children’s hospital have to meet a special condition with their younger patients who need continuous supervision and cares. The planning of the ward where the nurse as well as the patient and his/her caregivers stay all day long should cover all the users need. This study focused on the nurse’s need for the ward in children’s hospital. The nurse stay longer than any users in hospital and their treatment have to be based on deep understanding of their patients. The survey research followed the literature review on the children’s hospital and the nurses’ task and behavior. 119 nurses answered the structural questionnaire and their answers were analyzed using the statistical process such as basic descriptive statistics, ANOVA, and actor analysis. Results and conclusions are as follows. (1) The subjects least satisfied with the accessibility for the children and the natureand child-friendly design features among physical environment design factors of the hospital. (2) The Subject regarded the patients’ room to a private place of the patients and their caregivers not to the work places. (3) The design factors of the nursing station were classified into four: the functionality-, the privacy-, the supervisionand the restfulness-factor. The functionality and supervision factor were highly required as a workplace, the privacy factor between the patients, their caregivers and subject were also represented high score, but the restfulness factor were least required. |