Abstract
This study clarifies the relationship between hospital ward layout and nurses' perception of burden, while also verifying the practical convenience of multiple-corridor layouts, which have come to be considered the innovative floor plan for wards.the survey respondents preferred a layout that features a central corridor and centrally located nurse station from among the various types of ward layouts. The multiple-corridor model, currently considered the innovative layout for hospital wards, cannot necessarily be described as beneficial from the perspective of reducing nurses' perception of burden. These results differed from the findings of research that analyzed volumes of nurse traffic.
