Nursing Home Design Guide
2006
Kitchen area for snacks and
Some accommodation should be
socialization
made to manage the resident call
Bathing suite
system when the desk is not staffed.
Porch or outside access
This may include use of wireless
technology that has been
7. Staff Stations, Team Centers and
programmed to reroute resident call
Cluster Desks
signals. Low profile desks help
Three commonly designed unit work
residents in wheelchairs approach
spaces for nursing staff that respond to
staff. The design should prevent
a facility's operations, staffing, and care,
access to private information and
are staff stations, team centers and
computer cables.
dynamic cluster desks.
In some settings, a completely
Staff Stations - The staff station is an
decentralized approach to staffing
identifiable hub and may work in
may work best. For some Nursing
conjunction with a team room and
Homes, this may include replacing
cluster desks. The traditional
the traditional staff station with a
nursing station has become a cluster
"living room" where charts are kept
desk with access to security panels
in cabinets with charting done in the
as well as location that can be used
resident bedroom via a hand held
for night staff. In most jurisdictions,
device or in alcoves outside or
smaller stations for management of
inside the resident bedroom.
nursing and related care are viable.
Smaller desks may seat 1-2 people
Team Centers - Team center design
and other staff members may be
should address the following (See
located along a corridor and in the
Figure 3.21):
team room. (See Figure 3.20).
─ An alternative to conducting
When meetings and care planning
administrative transactions and
are done in the team room, it is
meetings in an open-plan staff
preferable that participating staff be
station
visible and monitor unit security
─ Equipment and related items
features.
necessary for center function
(see Guide Plate #7)
─ Required staff for two adjacent
neighborhoods of one unit for
care planning
─ Part-time use
Figure 3.20
Small Station, Team Work Area Nearby
Nevada Veterans' Home
Boulder City, NV
Office of Facilities Management
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