New Updates from Hospital Design Tips!

Health Care Staff & Nursing Staff

harry — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:14:50 +0000

One would argue that of all the public & private sectors, staff shortage in hospitals is one of the most critical issues. Some are short term due to illness or other personal reasons but permanent shortages are more serious, mainly due to people leaving service at retirement, changing employer or even moving away to another [...]

Way Finding & Signage in Hospitals & Clinics

harry — Sun, 09 May 2010 08:58:58 +0000

Visits to a hospital by patients or their visitors are almost always a stressful experience, especially the first visit. This stress can rapidly escalate, if they cannot get to where they need to go, quickly – be it to get treatment or to visit a loved one. The difficulty to find way can be compounded [...]

Nurse Call Systems

wullie — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:05:44 +0000

Author: Wullie Scott All healthcare facilities as part of the hospital design process require some kind of Nurse Call System which includes patient-to-staff and staff-to-staff calls when the need arises. When the nurse call is initiated, it buzzes at the nearest staff base, where the staff responsible can find out from the nurse call panel [...]

New Hospital Design – How to go About

harry — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:43:49 +0000

Our last hospital design article on fire escapes for disabled, based on a client query has proved very popular with the hospitaldesigntips.com visitors. It has encouraged me to come up with more apt advice on how to go about with the hospital design. A doctor friend of ours from India requested: We are planning for [...]

General Operating Theatre Design

harry — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:28:42 +0000

Designing an operating theatre outlines the intricacies of the hospital design process. An operating theatre suite consists of the Theatre, the Anaesthetic room, Scrub room and the Dirty Utility (or just Utility) room. We will look at planning just the Operating Theatre itself in this hospital design guide article. The size and room dimensions vary [...]