Stillingstittel:
Postdoctoral position - Smart Hospital Architecture

Stillingsbeskrivelse:

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) creates knowledge for a better world and solutions that can change everyday life. On 1 January 2016, NTNU has merged with the University Colleges of Ålesund, Gjøvik and Sør-Trøndelag. The merger results in more comprehensive educational offerings and larger research environments. The new organization is Norway's most exciting, innovative and largest university.

 

Jobbnorge ID: 121594

The project Smart Hospital Architecture has a 2-year postdoc position available for an enthusiastic doctor. The research questions to be worked on, relate to the impact of architectural quality on clinical processes and the interaction between patients and healthcare professionals within the setting of a hospital. Previous experience with hospital architecture, patient-professional interaction or the impact of architecture on (healthcare) professionals is an asset for this position.

 

Smart Hospital Architecture is an NTNU Health project. NTNU Health is one of the four Strategic Research Areas that have been established as priorities for the University during the period 2014 - 2023. The goal is to establish a research structure large and robust enough to do research on the healthcare infrastructure in itself and to contribute to more integrated solutions. Within NTNU Health, the project Smart Hospital Architecture is an initiative of the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, St Olav's Eiendom and the Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering to strengthen research on health promoting architecture.

 

The post doc will use the award winning St. Olav's University Hospital in Trondheim as research object. The hospital, which was completed in 2013, hosts a diversity of innovative solutions in hospital design. Several of the departments of the hospital already report on positive development such as higher productivity and fewer hospital days per patient. The postdoc candidate should investigate in what way the interaction between the patient and the healthcare professional is influenced by the organization of logistic flows within the hospital and the quality of the hospital's architectural environment.

 

Smart Hospital Architecture is an interdisciplinary project between healthcare sciences, information systems modelling and architecture in order to link an operationalization of architectural design to the use of resources in a clearly defined set of processes and outcomes. The project combines an analysis of meta-data of the hospital information system on clinical processes with the measurement of patient- and employee logistics and the architectural analysis of the hospital infrastructure. The produced models and analysis techniques should be used to compare clinical processes from different hospitals and test them in different architectural layout options in order to (re)design hospitals and clinical processes that increase both the healthcare professionals' productivity and patients' perception of healthcare quality.

 

The candidate selected for the position will have the following responsibilities: 

1. Collecting and analyzing data (surveys, interviews, observations) on the impact of the patient flows and architectural environment on patients and healthcare professionals.

2. Contributing to the analysis of the hospital's architectural quality with a focus on the interaction between patients and healthcare professionals. 

3. In collaboration with the St. Olav's Hospital collecting and analyzing patient flow data in relation to the architectural layout of the building on increased productivity of the staff.

4. Support the development of Health promoting Architecture within the strategic Research Area NTNU Health.

5. Writing of academic articles

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: NTNU - Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelig

Arbeidsgiver adresse: 7491 TRONDHEIM

Job kort beskrivelse: Building architects

Land: Norge

Region: Sør-Trøndelag

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år