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Detailed Needs and Requirements: Teaching
2. Medical Students. Medical students are also involved in patient care
and should have access to private facilities for patient examinations
and confidential discussions. Spaces such as exam/treatment rooms
or consultation rooms should be available to these students for such
use. In most cases, offices for medical students are not required and
individual study carrels on or adjacent to the unit should be adequate.
One exception to this is the psychiatric unit. The medical student on
the psychiatric unit may require private office/interview space in which
case carrels may not be sufficient. Medical students should also have
access to laboratory facilities on or adjacent to units on which they are
working.
3. Psychology Students. Each psychology student should be provided
with a private office.
4. Nursing Students. Nursing students are trained by nursing instructors
not assigned to the unit nursing staff. Office facilities should be
provided for these instructors on or adjacent to the units in which they
are teaching. The students themselves should have access to study
carrels on or adjacent to the unit.
5. Graduate Nurses. Graduate nurses should be provided with study
carrels on or adjacent to the units to which they are assigned.
6. Intern/Resident Nurses. Office facilities should be provided for
intern/resident nurses.
7. Social Work students and Assistants. Office space should be provided
in which social work students and assistants may conduct confidential
interviews with patients and their families.
8. Technician Trainees. Technical trainees should have access to study
carrels in close proximity to their work areas.
In addition to the spaces mentioned above, some allowance may be
required in other areas of the nursing unit to facilitate teaching functions.
9. Patient Room. The patient room becomes an educational facility
during ward rounds. There should be sufficient space to allow
students and staff to gather around the patient's bed without excessive
rearrangement of furniture.
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