Travel in Nursing Units
- 1 June 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
- Vol. 13 (3) , 269-282
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001872087101300308
Abstract
A method of comparing the efficiency of hospital-ward layouts in terms of nurses' travel is described. Comparisons of several floor plans are made. Travel that depends solely on physical layout and travel that is related to typical patterns of work can be identified. The method is useful to the behavioral scientist in making nursing unit studies in which equating travel or accounting for differences in travel are desired. The method is also useful to the industrial engineer and the architect in preventing needless travel, and to nursing management in showing the value of planned tours in reducing travel.Keywords
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