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RN Portfolio 7: Period style

Art Nouveau- This brooch selling for $92,000 by Rene Lalique is a beautiful symbol of the Art Nouveau period with curves and asymmetrical design of flowers and stems. These daffodils are made of glass and ornamented with diamonds. 

This Dadaism piece of art is a common household iron from the early 1900′s and represents a harmless iron to iron clothes with and the artist added a creepy number of nails (13) to it to create a useless almost scary device. 

The Sex Pistols logo is an example of punk post-modernism. The typeface of the logo is pushing ‘normal’ and modern in black and white and the jagged edge surrounding the words. This is familiar of a ransom note with pasted newsprint letters on a piece of paper. 

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RN Portfolio 5-6 - Design and Culture

Room in my home: Living room

These are photos inside my apartment from before I moved in and right after. The floors are old and pine and probably have dirt in between from 300 years ago. Around the windows are casings that have rosettes in each corner maybe from the Romanesque or Renaissance period. the casings look like Greek columns. The furniture on the other hand is modern and has an art nouveau table. In the progression of art and design, I choose a home on it’s history and then add what design I like because I am human and have different styles that appeal to me. I like things to feel clean and uncluttered and the style of the home and the style of the furniture make me feel like it all works together.  #week6tmd126

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RN Portfolio 5-6 - Design and Culture

 Period Style Postings

This building is the Supreme Court Building in Washington DC. I took this picture during the Women’s Walk in January 2017. The 8 columns on the building are from the Neo-Classicist period, which convey power and stature. The building was built in 1793 and has 2 large staircases leading up to it which creates a feeling of grandeur. 

This building is 2 blocks from my home in Marblehead, MA. It is Abbot Hall and built in 1876 and represents Romanesque style with the arches at the bell tower and built with brick and stone in contrasting colors. Abbot Hall stands on top of a hill on Washington Street overlooking the entire historic district and you can see this part of the hall from most parts of Marblehead. 

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Portfolio #4

SCAMPER - Elements analysis - redesign

Here is a photo of a new ‘waiting area’ for Emerson Hospital urgent care in Littleton, MA that just opened last year (photo smugmug.com). Thinking about elements, the colors in this space are mainly cool, blues and greys, with a touch of the hue yellow on the back wall that is very light and may be to try to make the space feel warm and comfortable. 

Using SCAMPER and thinking about substituting the element of color and shape in a space, the second waiting area the colors of the chairs and brighten the intensity of the yellow on the wall. In the image below, the space is also a waiting area with the same space, chairs and desk but designed with elements of warm colors, the chairs are still chairs but look more comfortable and inviting and less of a barrier to coming in when you need to be comforted when you are sick. This is important because patients are already tense and anxious when coming to the doctor and just the mere beginning of trying to make a patient feel comforted with furniture that is easy to clean, floors that are nob-skid but feels like you are being cared for as soon as you walk in is something that healthcare is lacking. According to Naccarella in  “DESIGN MATTERS FOR NURSES”, indoor environment quality is “the aesthetics and maintenance of the workplace serve as a daily reminder of the value their employers place on their work.” Not only does this second space convey value, it conveys what nursing is, which is caring.

Reference 

Naccarella, et. al. (2016). DESIGN MATTERS FOR NURSES. Retrieved    from file:///Users/kathleenclevenger/Downloads/Naccarella%20et%20al%202016%20Design%20Matters%20for%20Nurses.pdf

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Portfolio #3: Elements

Pattern & Texture-

This mirror/jewelry holder on my wall represents a simple 2-dimensional pattern that repeats circles in a circular motion and is a clear use of pattern. I found that the mirror made me look at the circular shapes and recognize that the circular flowers are made from the repeated circles in a pattern that created the flower.

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Pattern & Texture-

This basket has a clear use of pattern as well from the weaving of this material but also has a clear texture of rough feeling that we can sense visually and by touch. This pattern is textured and has a rhythm of a repeated weave. Even though this texture and pattern are only one color you can sense exactly how sturdy it should be and how it feels and even what it is for. The handle mimics the pattern of the weave as well. 

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One object

This sign of my logo of my ice cream shop (closed now) has clear use of color by using the hues of 2 colors blue, brown and white and the value is on the light- light blue, light brown of the scale and the blue is cool and the browns are warm and feel old or faded. This was designed to make you feel like you could see the texture of the cone because of the negative space, where the color is absent and makes you feel like the ice cream shop is going to have ice cream that has chips, and the shop will feel warm and homey due to the colors. It is relevant because it clearly shows an ice cream cone that would be sold in the shop and feels contained by the circle surrounding the cone and name of the shop. It also provides some nostalgia with the script font and colors that may feel like they are faded from time passing and reminds customers that ice cream shops would be gathering places for families and create happy memories.

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Portfolio #2

                      Concept map of the Iora Care Model

                                        Iora care model concept map

Describe how would you communicate what is especially important about the design to this audience?

The care model is designed around the patient and all of the health care personnel surround the patient with support.

Tell us how would you describe its design in 50 words or less to someone who has never seen it before?

The patient is at the center of the care and the team provides support to the patient by specialty: health coach develops the relationship with the patient by gaining trust and doing what they say they are going to do. The Provider, BHS, OA, and Nurse support the relationship to give to the patient what they need.

What if you could only use images to convey it to an audience? How would you do that with six pictures? 

A smile and handshake from the HC to the patient (Iora Health Coach & Patient)

The HC listening to the patient (Dr. Vasanth Kainkaryam, Jessica Ramos, Health Coach and patient)

The provider and HC collaborating with the patient (Jennifer Ahern, Health coach, Dr. Andrew Schutzbank & patient)

The healthcare team surrounding the patient (Iora Team member and patient)

The patient and their support system. (Iora team and patient)

A patient socializing in a class (Iora patient)

What would be three to five physical objects or samples that would be especially effective at the presentation for the audience to touch and hold? Explain why in each case.

This value cube represents the values that this care model envelopes. Bring creativity, Serve with Humility, Act with Passion, Feel Empathy and Demonstrate Courage. Real values that we actually represent. 

This blanket would represent the warm, soft feeling patients get when they meet the care team for the first time. (stock photo)

This is the physical object of the people that the care teams represent. (All Iora Retreat, 2015-Iora team members, including me!

How would you use these in the kind of situations described in either DiNardo 2015 or Eagle 2016?

Iora Nurses represent an anomaly, there is no such profession as RN’s in primary care. We are helping design how we fit into the Iora Care Model in how we think and look at problems. 

Most of these photos are my team and an incredible testament to what health care can be!

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Consider the seven stages of the Design Process. How far back in the process do you think you would you have to begin, in order to solve this problem and why?

Improve visibility of patients to staff. As a former Emergency Department Director, myself and my staff helped our architect renovate front triage/registration space to add more visibility of patients to the Triage Nurse when they walked in the door until they were taken back to the department and assisted into a room. My team was allowed to verbalize what goals they would want to accomplish in the area and between the architect and myself, we created a space that felt good and safe.

There were inherent constraints in the design of the triage and Lobby area.  To improve the visibility of patients to staff would have to begin back at the inspiration stage of design. My teams Gestalt was that we need to conceptualize the area to have the RN be able to see patients coming in, and patients in the lobby before or after triage in order to keep them safe. We would have to reconfigure the patient triage areas out of the current footprint of space doesn’t really work and the inspiration stage helped the team (the designer) think outside of those walls and imagine what care would look like in a new space.

Pick one of the SCAMPER actions (see pages 14 & 15 in the textbook) that you would use toward a solution of the given problem. How does that work and why?

In order to meet the goal we had created that the Triage Nurse needed to see the patient first to assess acuity, we took the steps of the registration clerk getting simple information to create a chart and the nurse gathering simple information about the patient that was being triaged and used the C in SCAMPER to combine the steps to create the space where the combination of steps could happen simultaneously in the same space and still give the patient privacy from people walking in and those sitting in the waiting room and gave the Triage Nurse the ability to pull the patient right in and get them registered at the same time. 

Where on the hierarchy of design is the object currently? Where would it be after your SCAMPER-ing? Explain your assessment, briefly.

In the nurse's minds, the steps of registration and triage were steps that needed to happen in exclusive of one another and in order so that a chart/bracelet/triage form could be produced so that the actual triage could happen. In the hierarchy of design needs, the ‘before’ triage area was separated from the registration area and not even functional for the goal of patient safety and the nurse needing to know what the patient’s complaint was. Once we combined the spaces and the processes into a simultaneous one it satisfied the functionality, it was reliable except for 3am-7am when there were fewer nurses, it was usable, it created a faster, more proficient  method of registering and triaging which was safer and faster for patients and then transcended to creativity due to the fact that the team realized that this was the ultimate goal in caring for an Emergency patient and it worked.

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This photo of my front door of a 3 story apartment building with the door handle on the left is simple. The door swings in and to the right. My apartment is on the first floor and the door to get into the living room in my apartment is on the right behind the front door while it is open and the staircase is on the left side of the entryway and there is only room for the door to swing open. There is another door on the left but it goes into the bedroom and is not functional. 

The simple fix to this design problem could be to switch the door so it opens to the left. When designing apartments out of 200-year-old homes, there may have been the utility to have the front door open in this way and over the course of the years, the tenants may have changed and had different needs. I know now that it is a struggle for more than one person/animal to get in the door around the door with your hands full or empty.