No. 07 „Good Lighting for Health Care Premises"
ISBN 3-926 193-26-3
56 pages
DIN A4
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Index
No. 07 „Good Lighting for Health Care Premises"
- Lighting for the health service
- Lighting functions
- Reception
- Wards
- Medical supply units
- Intermediate wards
- Maternity ward
- Doctors’ and nurses’ rooms
- Corridors, staircases and day rooms
- Outpatient departments and waiting areas
- General examination and treatment rooms
- Special examination and treatment rooms
- Operating theatres and recovery rooms
- Intensive care units
- Rehabilitation and therapy
- Ancillary operations
- Offices
- Cafeterias and restaurants
- Outdoor areas
- Doctors’ surgeries
- Sanatoria, nursing homes and retirement homes
- Lamps
- Luminaires
- Lighting quality features
- Standards and literature, emergency lighting
Extract
Wards
Lighting requirements
The lighting requirements of patients’ rooms are met by a number of separately switched lighting systems:
- general comfort lighting
- reading light for the patient
- lighting for bedside examinations and treatment
- night/observation lighting
- orientation lighting.
Comfortable atmosphere
The general lighting should create a comfortable atmosphere and should suffice for the performance of simple nursing duties. Illuminance should be 100 lux and the light colour of the lamps should be warm white. Additional indirect lighting makes the room seem larger, brighter and more appealing. Each bed also requires a reading light (300 lux).
Examination and treatment
The illuminance needed for bedside medical and nursing tasks can be provided jointly by all the lighting system components in the room. However, uniformity should not be less than 1:2. Lighting needs to be glarefree for doctors and nursing staff but not necessarily for patients. The correct illuminance levels are 300 lux for simple examinations and 1,000 lux for more complex ones.
