chih-pin hsiao, mengdie hu, takahiro ito, thomas roh northside hospital, piedmont hospital, scottish...

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1. Keyboard and mouse are dirty.2. Especially in ICU room3. Cause high possibilities of infection

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1. Nurses often forget to scan medicines when grab it2. Hard to monitor the usage of medicine3. The central pharmacy doesn’t when to restock

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Information in ICU is basically text, especially records of medicine

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Chart as things happen versus chart at the end of the day

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Information from different sources are in different formats.

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Concrete is adequate structure for big building like hospital, but it has little adaptability.

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1. They need much more money to change circulation of telephone codes.

2. In order to get visualization of patients’ room, they need to set up extra cameras.

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Doors

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Original designs are not always followed through.Original designs are not always followed through.

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Emory University Hospital EDFour rooms specifically for intensive care

Located right across from main nurses’ and doctors’ station

Walk-In Entrance

EMS Entrance

Life Flight Entrance

Staff StationICU Rooms

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Layout Problems

Patient and staff congestion is greatest in the hallway outside these rooms

Noise is also the greatest in these areas

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Layout ProblemsRound Layout ICUs in Piedmont

Hospital

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Layout Solutions

Divert some hallway traffic to other areas, move ICU rooms to new location

Add more restrooms to rooms so patients and visitors are not in the hallway excessively

Sound absorption walls

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1. Outboard layout for ICU patient room2. Lack of accessibility to outside environment3. Lose track of time

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1. Patient ability to handle his/her own daily life in ICU2. Access to TV remote or the alarm to nurse station3. Control the lighting conditions in the room4. Cause fall problem

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1. It is hard to give equal services.2. Regulations for visitors’ mobile technology

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Other Problems

Communicable Disease – any family and friends are allowed in

Transfer of knowledge of patient after patient has been stabilized

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Other Solutions

Visual cues to remind visitors to wash hands and wear masks

Locate cleansers outside each room

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