Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing, Master’s of Science in Nursing & Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree

Mark and Robyn Jones College of Nursing

Description: The Mark and Robyn Jones College of Nursing is a national leader in rural nursing research and is responsive to the evolving health needs of the people of Montana and the nation. Degrees offered include a bachelor's of science in nursing, a master's in nursing and a doctorate of nursing practice degree. Undergraduate students complete their upper-level coursework at one of the college's five campus sites in Billings, Bozeman, Great Falls, Kalispell, or Missoula, ensuring each student is able to complete clinical learning experiences in a variety of settings. Montana State University boasts the only graduate nursing program in the state.

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Health Care Design and Innovation Post-Baccalaureate Certificate

University of Minnesota School of Nursing, the College of Design’s Center for Design in Health and the Center for Spirituality & Healing

Description: The Health Care Design and Innovation Post-Baccalaureate Certificate prepares health care and design practitioners to create optimal healing environments. Students will learn how to apply design thinking in creating new processes, systems and care environments.

The certificate will emphasize principles that promote healing and safe patient care while maximizing clinical and financial outcomes. The program is offered in a blended format with online coursework as well as on-site learning.

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Design Thinking for Health

Penn Nursing and The Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation

Description: An online platform that teaches nurses a new framework to tackle the complex challenges they see in their practice.

This course will provide you with a new framework to think strategically about how to design meaningful change in health and healthcare. It will expand your knowledge and help you think bigger.

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Healthcare Facilities Planning and Design

eCornell Certificate Program

Description: This six-course certificate program provides you with in-depth instruction in effectively using evidence-based research to improve a healthcare environment. Core courses cover the critical components of healthcare facilities design planning. Learn excellence in change leadership, stakeholder management, and strategic alignment with organizational goals. Create your strategic plan and execute and assess it by using data to gauge impact. Learn some of the critical skills you need to lead your project to success or dive deeper to interpret technical facility design plans.

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Evidence-Based Design Accreditation and Certification (EDAC)

The Center for Health Design

Description: The Center for Health Design offers the Evidence-Based Design Accreditation and Certification (EDAC) program.  EDAC certification shows your clients and team members that you have a method for developing design solutions that are rooted in research to help achieve the desired goals and improved outcomes.

NIHD is an Advocate Organization for EDAC.

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A Guide to Healthcare Facility Dress Rehearsal Simulation Planning: Simplifying the Complex

Yellow Brick Consulting, Inc, 2021

Description: This twelve-chapter guide provides the reader a step-by-step framework to plan and coordinate Dress Rehearsal events for any size project. The Dress Rehearsal concept was conceived in 2009 when members of the Yellow Brick Consulting, Inc. team were tasked with activating and licensing a new, 100-bed hospital in 90 days. Drawing upon industry experience, the team developed an interdisciplinary simulation program using scenarios to validate new workflow processes and the new space’s functionality.

Over the years, Yellow Brick has refined the Dress Rehearsal program (also known as Day in the Life), incorporating best practices and lessons learned from facilitating more than 300 events conducted across North America. In 2019, the team set a goal to formalize the approach by publishing a guide that healthcare leaders could leverage as they prepare to activate their new spaces. The guide includes samples and tools developed by the Yellow Brick team to support Dress Rehearsal event coordination.

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Simplifying the Complex: A Guide to Transition and Activation Planning for Healthcare Construction Projects

Yellow Brick Consulting, Inc, 2020

Description: Simplifying the Complex is an easy-to-use guide that provides readers with the fundamentals of the transition, activation, and operational planning process and is essential for anyone involved in activating a new healthcare space. Meant to provide a straightforward planning roadmap, this guide tackles the high-risk and problem-prone strategic initiative of activating healthcare construction projects. Yellow Brick Consulting, Inc. utilized project management experience from healthcare projects of varying sizes, scopes and complexities to share best practices and to provide insight as to how to avoid common pitfalls through strategic planning. This resource provides the framework required to establish a consistent process throughout the Transition and Activation Planning process, including project kickoff, budget development, building readiness, and people readiness. Each chapter guides the reader through the stages of the planning process and provides the tools necessary for implementing a successful project.

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Nurses as Leaders in Healthcare Design; A Resources for Nurses and Inter-professional Partners

Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design, 2015

Description: In 2015, Herman Miller Healthcare partnered with the Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design (NIHD) to produce a book focused on nurses and other clinicians roles in planning and design of healthcare environments to optimize patient, provider and organizational outcomes. This book builds upon the success of Herman Miller's recent publication in collaboration with D. Kirk Hamilton entitled Rigor and Research in Healthcare Design: A Decade of Advocacy.

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Design for Pediatric & Neonatal Critical Care

Mardelle McCuskey Shepley, 2014

Description: Design for Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care provides an overview of the design and research issues associated with the development of environments for pediatric and neonatal intensive care. This is the first and only book dedicated to this topic and was created to support individuals interested in developing and studying critical care environments for children and their families.

This book is intended to help designers and researchers enhance healing environments for young patients in critical care settings and provide information in support of the families and staff who provide care for these children and infants.

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Rigor and Research in Healthcare Design: A Decade of Advocacy

Kirk Hamilton, 2013

Description: Coming Soon.

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Evidence Based Design, A Process for Research & Writing

DAK Kopec, E. Sinclair & Bruce Matthes, 2012

Description: Evidence-Based Design: A Process for Research and Writing serves as a guide to help students conceptualize and formulate their design ideas and then to evaluate and test those ideas through a succinct, organized process. The result is the culmination of a comprehensive document that articulates a design concept and justifies key design attributes. Step-by-step, students are guided through the process of writing a robust, research-based document geared towards empirical design research. From developing a critical position to performing a thorough review of the literature to providing an overview of common research methods, this text is a perfect guide for students producing an evidence-based thesis or dissertation.

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Health Facility Evaluation for Design Practitioners

Mardelle McCuskey Shepley, 2011

Description: Health Facility Evaluation for Design Practitioners is the definitive resource for understanding, planning, conducting, and sharing pre- and post-occupancy evaluations of health facilities. The appendices include a sample literature review, template for a PFE survey, and glossary of research terms.

Defines terms associated with the facility evaluation process, summarizes the approaches of some of the most prolific experts in the field, and sketches the evolution of building evaluation by offering examples and precedents.

This takes readers step by step through the evaluation process: how to conduct and summarize a literature review; develop an evaluation hypothesis; develop and describe a methodology; work with an IRB; analyze and summarize results; and interpret, discuss, and disseminate results. A chapter on obtaining funding is also included.

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Healing Spaces, The Science of Place and Well-Being

Esther M. Sternberg, 2009

Description: Sternberg immerses us in the discoveries that have revealed a complicated working relationship between the senses, the emotions, and the immune system. First among these is the story of the researcher who, in the 1980s, found that hospital patients with a view of nature healed faster than those without. How could a pleasant view speed healing? The author pursues this question through a series of places and situations that explore the neurobiology of the senses. The book shows how a Disney theme park or a Frank Gehry concert hall, a labyrinth or a garden can trigger or reduce stress, induce anxiety or instill peace.

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Informing Design

Joan Dickinson & John Marsden, 2009

Description: Informing Design suggests a pedagogy in which design decision making is informed by more than speculative hunches, preferences, and intuition. In this collection of contributed chapters, leaders in both design practice and education share their expertise in such specialty areas as corporate, retail, and learning environments; healthcare; and hospitality. Introductory chapters teach students to distinguish among information gathering, programming, and research; apply the findings of others; and conduct their own investigations. Other chapters illustrate how informed design decisions were applied to various building types.

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Evidence-based Design for Healthcare Facilities 1st Edition

Cynthia S. Mccullough, 2009

Description: In this book, nurse and healthcare design consultant Cynthia McCullough gives readers the necessary knowledge, tools, and strategies to incorporate evidence-based design concepts into any design project - from the largest new healthcare facility construction to the smallest departmental renovation.

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A Visual Reference to Evidence-Based Design

Center for Health Design

Description: With the patient experience and patient safety as the central theme of every chapter, industry icon Jain Malkin covers everything you need to know about hospital-acquired infections: the characteristics of pathogens, how infections are spread, regulatory requirements, the controversy about antimicrobials, and the implications for design professionals.

In this must-have resource you'll find:

1. Extensive research combined with dozens of case studies

2. The best practices available today in patient-centered projects

3. More than 300 full-color annotated project photographs and architectural plans

4. A step-by-step guide to creating a research agenda

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