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Environmental Attributes for Healthcare Professional’s Well-Being
The COVID-19 pandemic has been stressful for everyone and even more so for hard-working healthcare professionals. Contemporary hospitals are now endowed with environmental attributes that contribute to achieving well-being within their environment. However, these attributes tend to be focused on the patient and their experience. This paper examines these issues and describes the attributes of the physical environment that support healthcare professional’s well-being. Within a constructivist approach, the study was conducted in two care units in a mega hospital in Canada, before the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data collection includes a spatial evaluation of these care units, healthcare professionals’ spatial behavior, and 44 semi-structured interviews with various healthcare professionals, completed by the mental images. Thematic analysis and triangulation of the data set were conducted. Key attributes identified as promoting healthcare professionals’ well-being include light-color in care units, corridors and public areas of the hospital, and the cleanliness and art elements. Furthermore, panoramic views from the staff lounge, corridors, or elevator lobbies provide access to daylighting. This study highlights the importance of providing healthcare professionals break areas that allow them to find respite, particularly during periods of extreme stress such as COVID-19 pandemic.
Environmental Attributes for Healthcare Professional’s Well-Being
The COVID-19 pandemic has been stressful for everyone and even more so for hard-working healthcare professionals. Contemporary hospitals are now endowed with environmental attributes that contribute to achieving well-being within their environment. However, these attributes tend to be focused on the patient and their experience. This paper examines these issues and describes the attributes of the physical environment that support healthcare professional’s well-being. Within a constructivist approach, the study was conducted in two care units in a mega hospital in Canada, before the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data collection includes a spatial evaluation of these care units, healthcare professionals’ spatial behavior, and 44 semi-structured interviews with various healthcare professionals, completed by the mental images. Thematic analysis and triangulation of the data set were conducted. Key attributes identified as promoting healthcare professionals’ well-being include light-color in care units, corridors and public areas of the hospital, and the cleanliness and art elements. Furthermore, panoramic views from the staff lounge, corridors, or elevator lobbies provide access to daylighting. This study highlights the importance of providing healthcare professionals break areas that allow them to find respite, particularly during periods of extreme stress such as COVID-19 pandemic.
Environmental Attributes for Healthcare Professional’s Well-Being
The Urban Book Series
Arbizzani, Eugenio (editor) / Cangelli, Eliana (editor) / Clemente, Carola (editor) / Cumo, Fabrizio (editor) / Giofrè, Francesca (editor) / Giovenale, Anna Maria (editor) / Palme, Massimo (editor) / Paris, Spartaco (editor) / Hammouni, Zakia (author) / Wittich, Walter (author)
International Conference on Technological Imagination in the Green and Digital Transition ; 2022 ; Rome, Italy
Technological Imagination in the Green and Digital Transition ; Chapter: 91 ; 1029-1037
2023-06-30
9 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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Online Contents | 2005
Online Contents | 2005
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