急性期病棟における患者の病床配置と看護必要度との関連 : 個室・4床室と中央看護拠点までの距離に関する検討

acute care ward

看護総合科学研究会誌

The objective of this study was to clarify the relationship of a staff station (hereafter abbreviated as SS) to the arrangement of patient beds, including the types of rooms and distances between the SS and the patient beds in acute care wards. The study was conducted in two wards of an acute care hospital. The following aspects were studied: the nursing care needs of each patient, and the distances between the SS and the patient beds in the wards. The following results were obtained: 1. The values of nursing care needs (A), which included monitoring and treatment, were significantly higher in single rooms than in rooms with four patients in both wards. 2. It was thought that if the patient monitoring and medical care could be performed at nurse comer, the nursing administrators arranged the patient beds for the higher values of nursing care needs (A) without taking into consideration the distance between the SS and the patient beds. 3. The values of nursing care needs (B), which assessed the necessity for levels of daily life assistance, were affected by the distance between the SS and the bed or the type of room in one ward.