The Impact of Hospital Design on Time Spent on Nursing Tasks: A Time Motion Study.
Objectives: To explore the time spent on nursing tasks and the extent of multitasking in a hospital with multi-bedded rooms compared to single-occupancy rooms. Background: Single-occupancy patient rooms in hospitals have become popular because of the privacy they offer. However, little is known abou...
| Publicado en: | Health Environments Research & Design Journal (HERD) (Sage Publications, Ltd.) Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 114 - 125 |
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Jul2025
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