Nursing Home Design Guide
2006
Windows with a view above table height.
Large "write-on"
Sufficient
wall panels or
Team Room
power, phone
painted surfaces
lines, and
Office
outlets to
handle
communication
and facilitate
alternative
room
Equipment storage
arrangements
closets
Locker
Staff
Med.
Desk
Supply
Room
Room
Figure 3.21
Display kiosks
and internet
Team Meeting and Optional Desk/Station
notification, to
reduce the
posting of
paper notices
Dynamic Cluster Desks -
clusters of rooms and used by them,
Appropriately equipped, decentralized
licensed staff, and medical professionals
work desks respond to the assigned
making room-to-room rounds. (See
positions of nursing assistants and the
Figure 3.24) These workstations are
needs of the nursing staff. (See Figure
dynamic because an array of equipment
allows protected access to records,
3.22) Dynamic cluster desks are not
stations that are staffed continually but
transmission of orders, and coordination
are used as needed with personal
of documentation. Storage should be
information protected from unauthorized
customized to each cluster's or unit's
access and view. These desks may be
focus. (See Figure 3.23).
located near 1-2 nursing assistants'
Office of Facilities Management
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