Herman Miller on Nurses as Leaders in Healthcare Design

  There are a lot of people who make a great healthcare experience happen. Nurses are the eyes and ears, the workhorse and the expert, and the heart and soul of the healthcare industry. People know this; ask anyone with a healthcare experience of any kind – on the patient or medical staff side – about who makes the wheels turn in the healthcare environment, who spends the most face-time with patients and can answer medical questions and can connect doctors and other medical staff with patients and family members, and they’ll tell you their nurse does all of the above. “Nurses as Leaders in Healthcare Design: A Resource for Nurses and Interprofessional Partners” is a joint venture by Herman Miller and the Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design (NIHD). The book marks a time in healthcare design when nurses are contributing invaluable assets to the planning and design of healthcare …