Emergency departments are some of the most punishing workplaces in healthcare. Clinicians move in seconds from breaking catastrophic news to families, to resuscitating a dying patient, to reassuring a parent whose child has a simple fever. We rightly talk a lot about patient experience. We talk far less about what these relentless environments do to the people who work in them.
New research published in Issue 18 of the Journal of Biophilic Design, proves that after just one minute of viewing nature imagery, clinicians felt less anxious, less gloomy and calmer and at ease, in a way that is extremely unlikely to be explained by random fluctuation.
If a single minute in front of one picture can move the needle, what might a genuinely biophilic emergency department achieve? READ on and listen to the interview.
