Perceptual Effects of Physical and Visual Accessibilities in Intensive Care Units: A Quasi-experimental Study

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly
Mahbub RashidBelinda Jones

Abstract

This article reports the findings of a 2-phase quasi-experimental study looking at the perceptual effects of physical and visual accessibilities on clinical staff in intensive care units (ICUs). In a previous CCNQ article by Rashid et al, the first phase of the study was reported comparing, among other things, physical and visual accessibilities and their associations with staff perception in 2 ICUs with the open-plan and racetrack-type layouts. The data for that phase of the study were collected in December 2014, which included the data on physical and visual accessibilities collected using the spatial analysis techniques of Space Syntax, and the data on staff perception collected using a questionnaire survey. Since then, the open-plan ICU has been completely redesigned using a layout composed of 4-bed pods (each dubbed as a HYPERPOD by the designer). However, the racetrack ICU has remained unchanged. In August 2016, more than years after the data for the first phase of this study were collected, the authors went back to the study sites to collect similar data using the methods of the previous study by Rashid et al. The purpose of the 2-phase study was 2-fold: (1) to see whether staff perception and their associations with phy...Continue Reading

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