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Developing, validating and testing a ward environment assessment tool.

Isaiah O Durosaiye¹, Karim Hadjri¹, Champika L Liyanage²

¹School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

Journal of Nursing Management

|January 19, 2020

Summary

A new Ward Environment Assessment Tool (WEAT) was developed to evaluate hospital wards from nurses' perspectives. This tool assesses the impact of the physical, cognitive, sensory, and universal aspects of the ward environment on nursing staff.

Keywords:

architectural design features hospital ward person-environment fit theory personal constructs post-occupancy evaluation ward nurse

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Area of Science:

Healthcare Facility Design
Nursing Practice
Environmental Psychology

Background:

Existing assessment tools inadequately address nursing staff needs for healthcare facilities.
Varied user expectations necessitate tailored evaluation methods for healing environments.
A gap exists in tools evaluating hospital ward suitability for nursing personnel.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate a Ward Environment Assessment Tool (WEAT).
To conduct a post-occupancy evaluation of hospital wards from nurses' perspectives.
To utilize Person-Environment fit theory in assessing ward environments.

Main Methods:

Literature review to construct the WEAT.
Interviews with twenty ward nurses for user perspectives.
Post-occupancy evaluation of three hospital wards for validation and testing.

Main Results:

A novel Ward Environment Assessment Tool (WEAT) was created.
WEAT was validated and tested through post-occupancy evaluations.
The tool captures user perspectives on ward environments.

Conclusions:

WEAT measures the influence of the ward environment on nurses across physical, cognitive, sensory, and universal constructs.
WEAT serves as a management decision-making tool for workspace redesign and job role optimization.
The tool facilitates evidence-based arguments for improving hospital ward environments for nursing staff.