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Last month, NIHD Member Andrea Skowronek, RD, MPH, CAPM had the incredible opportunity to attend her first ASHE PDC Summit. Summit sessions were a buffet of practical, actionable advice, exactly what you’d expect from a gathering of top-tier engineers, architects, designers, construction professionals, hospital administrators, and clinicians. Read about the insights she gathered.
See Change Sessions is the collision of unconventional networking and collaboration by labs (workshops) and in-the-moment speaker topics to facilitate change across six different priority, themed areas – Where We Live; Beyond the Stars; Turning the Tide; Breaking the Buzzword; Cultures in Conversation; and Harmony & Dissonance.
This DAISY Nurse Leader Award is open to individual nurses who are actively engaged in healthcare design. This includes nurses who consult, assist, advise, or work in creating better spaces for patients and families.
During my time as a bedside nurse I recall thinking that teamwork and communication came naturally by just working well with other care team members, and that the patients would naturally benefit from this. But as I began transitioning my career to patient safety and quality of care through improving teamwork and communication I then realized that there are enablers and barriers to teamwork in the very unit and care areas we work in.
Art, while decorative, is more than simply a backdrop for medical environments. It is a path towards truly holistic healing and an integral part of our hospital experience. Pulling from evidence-based design research, Antonia Dapena-Tretter uses her background as the Art Curator at Stanford Medicine | Children’s Health, and board member at The National Organization for Arts in Health, to make the case for including artwork commissions and murals in every hospital or clinical space.
Are you interested in increasing your organization’s operational effectiveness? If yielding higher profits, revenue, and staff productivity is important to you, please continue reading this blog.
At the last HCD Conference, Board member Kevin Meek had an opportunity to work in the NIHD booth with Ron Kraus MSN, RN, CEN, TCRN, ACNS-BC, a Healthcare Operations Planner with BSA LifeStructures. Recently joining the team at BSA LifeStructures in August 2022, Ron brings decades of clinical experience to the healthcare design operations team supporting clients and internal teams.
NIHD will sponsor graduate nursing students from Montana State University Mark and Robyn Jones College of Nursing to join the 2024 PDC Student Challenge.
At this year's Healthcare Design Conference + Expo (HCD), my motivation to attend was driven from the evolving landscape of healthcare design, prompting me to explore the pervasive influence, redirection, and support technology has offered in shaping our perspectives.
Behavioral Health is among the fastest growing applications in the healthcare space. The challenges involved in marrying the performance attributes required of an acute behavioral facility, while also achieving desired aesthetic outcomes, can be daunting. Read more in this blog contribution by Paul McKinney, EDAC, National Healthcare Segment Director, Gerflor USA.
2024 will be a challenging year for our healthcare professions and industry, to say nothing about our society, country, and world. Let us together find purpose in our community with one another and in our collective vision to shape the future of healthcare through the engagement and integration of the clinical voice in the planning and design of healthcare environments.
With 2023 almost to a close, we asked current & past board members of the Nursing Institute of Healthcare Design to reflect on their favorite healthcare products, designs, and trends that will kickstart an aspirational New Year.