1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911092689003321

Titolo

Design that cares :  planning health facilities for patients and visitors / /  Janet R. Carpman, Myron A. Grant ; with assistance from Elizabeth M. Kirchen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, Calif., : Jossey-Bass, c2016

ISBN

1-118-22163-X

1-118-23540-1

9781118221631

Edizione

[3rd ed]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (587 pages)

Classificazione

526.49

WX 140

725/.51

Disciplina

725.51

Soggetti

Health facilities -- Design and construction

Facility Design and Construction

Health Facility Planning

Ergonomics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

A look at current health-facility design research -- Arrival and exterior wayfinding -- Interior wayfinding and the circulation system -- Waiting and reception areas -- Diagnostic and treatment areas -- Inpatient rooms and baths -- Access to nature -- Users with functional limitations -- Special places and services -- User participation in healthcare facility design : going beyond guidelines.

Sommario/riassunto

Design That Cares: Planning Health Facilities for Patients and Visitors, 3rd Edition is the award-winning, essential textbook and guide for understanding and achieving customer-focused, evidence-based health care design excellence. This updated third edition includes new information about how all aspects of health facility design - site planning, architecture, interiors, product design, graphic design, and others - can meet the needs and reflect the preferences of customers: patients, family and visitors, as well as staff. The book takes readers on



a journey through a typical health facility and discusses, in detail, at each stop along the way, how design can demonstrate care both for and about patients and visitors. Design that Cares provides the definitive roadmap to improving customer experience by design.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911153259703321

Autore

Norman Thomas L

Titolo

Electronic access control / / Thomas Norman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2012

ISBN

9786613293626

9781283293624

1283293625

9780123820297

0123820294

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (444 p.)

Disciplina

621.38928

683.32

Soggetti

Electronic locking devices

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The basics -- pt. 2. How things work -- pt. 3. The things that make systems sing.

Sommario/riassunto

Access Control Systems are difficult to learn and even harder to master due to the different ways in which manufacturers approach the subject and the myriad complications associated with doors, door frames, hardware, and electrified locks. Electronic Access Control consolidates this information, covering a comprehensive yet easy-to-read list of subjects that every Access Control System Designer, Installer, Maintenance Tech or Project Manager needs to know in order to develop quality and profitable Alarm/Access Control System installations. Within these pages, Thomas L. Norman, a mast