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Detailed Needs and Requirements: General Nursing Unit
a. other neurosurgery units;
b. diagnostic/treatment facilities such as EEG, EMG and a visual field
room;
c. outpatient clinics and;
d. physical therapy facilities.
522.2.2
Space Requirements
1. Patient Bedroom
Most diagnosis, treatment and supportive care occurs in the patient
bedroom. Facilities required for this may include: oxygen, vacuum,
compressed air, electrical power, nurse call systems, electrical
isolation systems and physiological monitoring.
Adequate space should be available at the patient beside to
accommodate routine diagnostic and treatment equipment and
procedures, e.g. I.V. infusions, orthopedic attachments, portable X-ray
exposures, etc. This space should also be sufficient to allow for the
equipment and personnel required for emergency treatments. Hand
washing facilities should be available for the use of staff.
The patient bedrooms must accommodate the wide range of personal
and social activities indicated previously. The necessary privacy,
space, lighting, and facilities for these activities should be provided.
Single-bedrooms should be available on general nursing units for
those patients who require separation from others, e.g. infectious,
terminal, disturbed, or offensive patients. In addition, patients who are
severely ill benefit from the privacy of an individual room. Therefore,
the single-bed rooms should be easily accessible and observable from
the nurses' station. Separate toilet and shower facilities are desirable
with each of these single-bedrooms; however, such facilities are
mandatory only in isolation rooms.
Many of the patients on general nursing units may be adequately
accommodated in multi-bedrooms. These rooms should provide some
degree of privacy for each of the patients and the total number of
patients in each room should generally not exceed four.
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