In most hospitals, nursing services on each patient floor and in surgical care units are coordinated from a centralized stations, most of which operate around the clock. Patient data entry and charting, filing, dispensing of medication and observation of display screens are just a few of the visual tasks that take place at a nursing station.
Since this is an area of the hospital where patient comfort is not the key goal, the functional aspects of the lighting design take precedence. The lighting design is often integrated with the corridor lighting since the nursing staff makes frequent trips from their station to the patient rooms.
