Relationship of the Built Environment on Nursing Communication Patterns in the Emergency Department: A Task Performance and Analysis Time Study

The physical layout of the emergency department affects the way in which patients and providers move within the space and can cause substantial changes in workflow and, therefore, affect communication patterns between providers. There is no 1 ED design that enables the best patient care, and quantitative studies looking at ED design are limited. The goal of this study was to examine how different ED designs, centralized and decentralized, are associated with communication patterns among health care professionals.

Source: Journal of Emergency Nursing: JEN - June 3, 2020 Category: Nursing Authors: Kailey Tindle, Allison David, Stephanie Carlisle, Billie Faircloth, J. Matthew Fields, Geoffrey Hayden, Bon Ku Tags: Research Source Type: research