A Room with a View

By Barbara Pantuso - February 19, 2010

How Evidence-Based Design Leads to Better Patient Outcomes.

“It is a curious thing to observe how almost all patients lie with their faces turned to the light, exactly as plants always make their way towards the light; a patient will even complain that it gives him pain ‘lying on that side.’ ‘Then why do you lie on that side?’ He does not know — but we do. It is because it is the side towards the window.”
                                                                                                                                                                           -Florence Nightingale from Notes on Nursing

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