Creating a healing environment: the nurse manager's challenge.
Environments can create positive attitudes or they can induce negative feelings. The nurse manager's responsibility is to understand how different environmental designs can reduce patient and staff anxiety and stress. The patient care unit should support staff and patients and provide a caring, healing environment. Chapman makes the important point to "Do everything you can think of to take better care of your employees so that your employees in turn will take better care of patients" (1990, p. 19). Happy, cared-for staff will take excellent care of patients and create a healing environment.
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