Designing a "safe room" on a medical nursing unit floor.
Building a "safe room" on a Medical Nursing floor to house high-risk patients as well as regular patients required inter-department cooperation and an understanding of the differences between a normal room renovation and that of a safe room. In this article, the author describes the kind of cooperation needed and the steps taken to successfully build and use the new safe room.
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Faulkner Hospital, Boston, MA , USA.
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