Design Elements for Improving the Facilities of the Comprehensive Nursing Service Ward

Purpose : This study is to establish guidelines for the facilities of comprehensive nursing services suitable for the domestic situation, and to draw up the issues of the nursing service through the review of related domestic and foreign literature. It is hoped that this study is to suggest design factors for the improvement of nursing service facilities. Method : This study is limited to the looking into the literature in the field of nursing and architecture, which focuses on the understanding of domestic wards of hospitals performing comprehensive nursing services since 2013. The guidelines (2017) of the Korean Medical Law and the relevant international standards/ guidelines are based on those of the United Kingdom (HBN Guideline) and Canada (CSA). Result : The most important issue in the implementation of the comprehensive nursing service is to change the functions of NS according to the team nursing and the nursing area in the ward. It is also pointed out that the nursing movement becomes longer due to the unreasonable arrangement of the nursing rooms. The comprehensive nursing service is based on team nursing, and since the nurse’s patient is determined, therefore, the basic unit cluster plan should be based on the nursing activity by providing effective nursing placement, patient privacy, comfort. It is also necessary to prepare measures to solve the separation of pollutants.