Abstract
The study aims to evaluate the ward planning from aspects of efficiency in nursing activities. The paper refers to 1) Relations between the total distance of nurses' trips and the distribution pattern of patients, and 2) Numerical simulations of nurses' trips in ward plan types. The results are as follows : 1) The critical linkage of trips is the one between nurses' station and patients' bedrooms because nurses tripped more frequently between these two in surveyed wards. 2) The above phenomenon is more notable in surgical units. 3) The main destination of trips is the bedrooms of seriously ill patients. 4) The re-arrangements of patient distributions are effective in several nursing units by reducing the distance of trips. 5) The above room-changes are excercised in surveyed surgical units. 6) No clear relations are found between the distances from nurses' stations to a certain patients' bedrooms and the frequencies of trips to that bedroom. 7) The double corridor D 1 type (nurses' station located in the center of ward core) marks the highest efficiency in the simulation of nurses' trips in ward plan types.
