FINAL DRAFT 9-26-95
REVISED FEBRUARY 1997
Functional Considerations
Narrative
The equipment is tested and sanitized
Sleep Study areas are located away from
before being moved to a clean storage area.
traffic,
sources of electrical interference,
microwave, or other RF noise.
Physical separation of clean and soiled
equipment must be maintained throughout the
Equipment processing is located where it
process, avoiding the crossing of clean and
is accessible from outside areas without
soiled work flows.
having to traverse the department.
The equipment processing areas must be
Building Systems Integration:
located where they are accessible to all
serviced units, including the procedure
Pulmonary Medicine does not impose
spaces within the department. This must be
severe
demands
on
special
building
accomplished without interfacing patient
traffic.
Special studies, such as bronchoscopies
Locate additional clean and soiled utility
and inhalation therapies may demand
functions close to the supported patient areas
environmental investigation, as they require
they support but away from patient traffic.
special isolation due to Tuberculosis or the
AIDS virus.
Organizational Concepts:
Staff Utilization and Cross-Training:
Pulmonary Medicine provides training
Functional Layering:
services to nursing and medical staff and also
Reception is located to control access to
coordinates services with the staff of all units
the patient areas and to secure Pulmonary
served.
Medicine from unauthorized access. Patient
Stress Testing activities of Pulmonary
records are also usually received in and
Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, Cardiology and
distributed from this area.
Ultrasound should be consolidated wherever
Patient areas are consolidated to control
possible.
patient access and to maintain patient
privacy, security, and dignity. High-frequency
short- duration exams are near the reception
area.
Staff Support Areas are consolidated in a
core to assure quality, staff efficacy, patient
record security and patient privacy.
Administrative areas include reading,
interpretation, and consultation spaces that
are
accessible
to
the
physicians.
Consultation and interpretation areas are not
accessed by patients to provide private staff
work areas.
VA DESIGN GUIDE
PULMONARY MEDICINE SERVICE
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