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Create non-threatening and comfortable healthcare facilities with appropriate finishes, furnishings, color decor, and lighting. Provide accessibility, maintain a clutter-free environment, and offer views of the outdoors. Use familiar and culturally relevant materials to create a soothing ambiance.
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Aesthetics of Physical Environment3.03 Understand support services
Aesthetics of Physical Environment • Patients are often afraid and confused. • These feelings may slow their recovery. • Hospital stay should be • non-threatening • comfortable 3.03 Understand support services
Aesthetics of Physical Environment • The interior design of the healthcare agency should be based on • facilities mission • patient profile 3.03 Understand support services
Aesthetics of Physical Environment • Coordinate selection of facility finishes and furnishings • Participate in development of design and construction plans • Analyze the therapeutic and functional aspects of color décor and furnishing 3.03 Understand support services
Aesthetics of Physical Environment • Provide accessibility through appropriate directional aids • Maintain a clutter free environment • Maintain facility in good repair • Present products and services in a quality manner X-ray Laboratory 3.03 Understand support services
Aesthetics of Physical Environment • Use familiar and culturally relevant materials • Use cheerful and varied colors and textures • Use natural light wherever possible and color-corrected lighting in interior spaces that do not have natural light 3.03 Understand support services
Aesthetics of Physical Environment • Provide views of the outdoors from every patient bed; pictures or murals of nature scenes if outdoor views are not possible • Design a “way-finding” process to allow for ease in getting to a destination and returning X-ray Laboratory 3.03 Understand support services
Mission Hospital 3.03 Understand support services
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit 3.03 Understand support services
Patient Room 3.03 Understand support services
Nurses Station 3.03 Understand support services
Chapel At St. Joseph’s Campus 3.03 Understand support services
Pedatrics 3.03 Understand support services
Ruth Bell Graham Chlidren’s Center 3.03 Understand support services
Cancer Center 3.03 Understand support services
Open MRI 3.03 Understand support services
http://womens.mission-health.org/maternity/motherbaby-units 3.03 Understand support services