Abstract
Background : The “hall-ward” in Ninosawa Hospital that admits 25 patients all together is rare and precious material.
Methods : We examined merits and demerits of “hall-ward” using a questionnaire given to the nursing staffs.
Results : Most staffs considered “little oppressiveness” and “being well-lighted by broad windows” as patients' merits, and “little concealment during clothes-change” and “noisiness” as patients' demerits. “Well-understanding between patients and staffs” and “easy in observing patients” were considered to be merits affecting the nursing staff.
Conclusions : These merits of the “hall-ward” highlighted the primary importance of an adequate area and capacity for one bed, fairly high ceiling, broad windows, and a well-designed arrangement of wards.
