Caring for Caregivers: Designing Environments for Recruitment and Retention

Caregiver work environments need to be designed to sustain the mind.  This article from Healthcare Design teaches us how this can be achieved through creating areas that will sustain the energy, spirit and productivity of facility staff.

Staff fatigue and burnout result from many factors, but helping to alleviate some of the causes can be addressed in the design of the caregivers’ work environment. If the design enables caregivers to work more efficiently by reducing travel distances and the time spent “hunting and gathering,” then caregivers should have more time to spend in direct patient care activities.

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