Exploring the spatial arrangement of patient rooms for minimum nurse travel in hospital nursing units in Korea

With increasing demands on medical care services, one of the trends is the mixed patient room arrangement of single/double-bed and multi-bed rooms in a nursing unit on the same floor. This influences nurse-to-patient assignment and often causes an unbalanced workload and longer travel distances for...

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Main Authors: Jisun Lee, Hyunsoo Lee, Mardelle McCuskey Shepley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2020-12-01
Series:Frontiers of Architectural Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095263520300480