Spinal Cord Injury Center Design Guide
July 1990 (Rev. Jan. 2004)
Nursing Unit
Functional Grouping
Figure I-2
The design of an SCI Nursing Unit is primarily the wrapping of bedrooms around a
service core in such a way that all have good access to staff, and the more acutely ill
(those in the One-Bed Rooms, the Isolation Rooms and the Four-Bed Respiratory
Room) have priority access to the Nurse Station. A secondary goal for the Nurse
Station is visual control of the entrance point(s) to the Nursing Unit.
The Dayroom is intended to be an unsupervised patient activity space and should not
be visible from the Nurse Station.
Office of Facilities Management
7
Previous Page
