INTRODUCTION: Healthcare facilities are complex infrastructures where different features
from technological, social, clinical and architectural field interact. In modern healthcare …

Objectives To prevent an accumulation of strain during work and to reduce error risk, many
countries have made rest breaks mandatory. In the nursing literature, insufficient rest break …

Research using subjective wellbeing (SWB) measures finds that the greener an individual's
local environment is, the higher the levels of happiness and the lower levels of stress they …

Objectives: Measure the immediate change in intensive care unit (ICU) family members'
state stress levels from the beginning to the end of a person's visit to a hospital garden and …

Background Nurses working in hospital environments are at risk for burnout. Exposure to
nature has psychological benefits, but the effect of hospital gardens on nurse burnout is less …

Objectives: To provide a live-experience knowledge base about biophilic design parameters
and environmental features to inform policy and design in clinical therapeutic environments …

Background Nurses and midwives have been stretched by the COVID-19 pandemic amidst
the heroic roles they have played during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nurses stood …

In the transition to a more sustainable built environment over the last two decades, the
“greening” of architecture as a popular approach has received widespread attention …

Hospitals are complex, high-performance systems that demand continuous quality
improvement. Several instruments evaluate the organizational or clinical qualities but very …

There is growing evidence that people's interactions with water are beneficial to their health.
However, existing studies have focused primarily on natural bodies of water such as seas …