An Assessment of U.S. Hospital Inpatient Charting Station Design

A new research project invitation: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 30, 2010!

Join an established team and get involved in health environment research today.

Many of us have designed acute care inpatient units. All are unique - representing a variety of patient room layouts, floor plan configurations and work station typographies - some more effective than others. This major national assessment will compare the effectiveness of those variations in design.

The AIA Academy of Architecture for Health Foundation (AAHF) is sponsoring the newly formed Hospital Workplace Research Group (HWRG) to evaluate the variety of ways architects have designed charting stations that use electronic medical records (EMR) in inpatient care units. We are offering AAH members a place on the research team.

Participation is simple—if qualified (see qualification requirements below), you will need to send us a floor plan of the unit, and then request and coordinate your client’s nurse participation in completing a 15‐minute on‐line survey.

To Qualify: The hospital you submit must use electronic medical records for documenting physical assessment, vital signs, intake and output, plan of care and charting medications; and EMR must be used by other clinicians (Respiratory, PT, Dietician, etc.) For this study, we will be specifically looking at inpatient units.

If you are interested in participating in the research, please click on the link below for prequalification. The application deadline is June 30, 2010.  After prequalification, HWRG will contact you with further information.

Click here to prequalify!

Your participation provides the following benefits:

• It puts you at the forefront of discovery as we develop an understanding of how building design can support more effective nursing practices when coupled with the use of EMRs.


• You and your firm will be recognized nationally as a research partner when the survey results are published.


• It gives you an opportunity to make a positive connection with your existing healthcare clients.


• It demonstrates your commitment to and leadership in healthcare design.

We look forward to partnering with all interested Academy members on this exciting project.
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4. Identify key department adjacencies

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David Allison, FAIA, ACHA
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Architecture + Health
School of Architecture, Clemson University

Professor Allison has practiced, taught and conducted research in the field of architecture for health for over 30 years. He speaks and writes on issues related to the healthful design of healthcare facilities and other architectural settings and has served on numerous national health environments design award juries.  He was a founding member of the American College of Healthcare Architects and the Coalition for Health Environments Research. He is also a member of the Leadership Council of the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health where he served a three year term as an AIA/AAH National Advisory Board member. He was selected in 2007 as one of "Twenty Making a Difference" nationally by Healthcare Design Magazine and identified again in 2009 by a national poll conducted by the magazine as one of the twenty-five most influential people in healthcare design.

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After registering for this event, you may invite as many coworkers and clients as you want to share in this live meeting with you. All attendees will be eligible to receive 1.5 LU HSW (AIA continuing education) or 1.5 TU of IDP supplementary education credit. After viewing webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the universal drivers that impact health facility planning and design
2. Identify key parallels between urban design and health facility planning and design
3. Identify basic hospital planning and design issues and concepts
4. Identify key organizational concepts, building forms and department adjacencies

Register today and a form for reporting continuing education credit will be provided with the webinar handouts. Questions regarding reporting credit can be directed to justinmadigan@aia.org.

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