Summary
This dissertation investigates how lighting and illumination can be optimally tailored to the needs of nursing staff, with the goal of maintaining high-quality patient care and patient safety. It considers both the visual performance aspects of lighting for healthcare workers and the non-image-forming (circadian/biological) effects of light.
Key Findings
- The central research question addresses optimization of lighting for nurses to support both visual task performance and non-visual (circadian and alertness) human responses in healthcare environments.
- Good lighting is identified as supporting visual performance of care staff while also influencing non-image-forming aspects of human health and wellbeing in clinical settings.
Categories
Shift Work & Staff Wellbeing: Investigates how lighting can be optimized for nurses to maintain quality of patient care and safety during their work.
Patient Recovery: Examines lighting's role in patient safety and care quality outcomes in healthcare settings.
The Science of Light: Addresses both visual performance aspects and non-image-forming (non-visual) effects of light relevant to healthcare lighting design.
Author(s)
M Aarts
Publication Year
2020
Related Publications
Shift Work & Staff Wellbeing
- Off the clock: from circadian disruption to metabolic disease
- Endocrine regulation of circadian physiology
- Working against the biological clock: a review for the Occupational Physician
- Shiftwork and light at night negatively impact molecular and endocrine timekeeping in the female reproductive axis in humans and rodents
- Circadian Rhythms Disrupted by Light at Night and Mistimed Food Intake Alter Hormonal Rhythms and Metabolism
Patient Recovery
- Light during darkness and cancer: relationships in circadian photoreception and tumor biology
- An overview of the effects of light on human circadian rhythms: Implications for new light sources and lighting systems design
- Application of different circadian lighting metrics in a health residence
- Melatonin and cortisol in individuals with spinal cord injury
- Sustainable lighting for healthcare facilities: More than just lumens per watt
The Science of Light
- Phototransduction by retinal ganglion cells that set the circadian clock
- Color appearance models
- The mammalian circadian timing system: organization and coordination of central and peripheral clocks
- Diminished pupillary light reflex at high irradiances in melanopsin-knockout mice
- Melanopsin is required for non-image-forming photic responses in blind mice