Old touches for new hospital

It is refreshing to learn that hospital administrators are paying attention to detail when it comes to the quality of a hospital's interior design. A blend of history and technology is ideal. The aesthetics of a patient's environment is critical for healing purposes. "Comfort, light and brightness also are key when designing a hospital’s interior, Nichols Kennedy says. “Most of the time, just the thought of having to go to the hospital brings anxiety."

“Anxiety is not conducive to healing.”

So, if we may strive to create an environment that is conducive to healing or perhaps a peaceful death- patients and their loved ones will have a decreased level of anxiety and memories of the hospital environment will be pleasant. I often tell my students, bring in a small token of beauty to place at your patient's bedside...and watch the smile that comes across the patient's face! Wonderful! Let us not forget that surroundings do affect our health and well-being.