Project 2
Unboxing PPE
Client
University Health Network (UHN) - Toronto Western Hospital Infection Prevention and Control Unit
Sector
Design Research, Healthcare
Responsibilities
Design Researcher, Designer
Project Duration
1 month
UHN is struggling with staff/visitor compliance with donning and doffing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) appropriately. The current signage indicates what PPE to use for what type of additional precaution the patient may be on. However, it does not indicate the safest order to don or doff the equipment. It can be confusing for those who are unfamiliar with PPE use Further to this, the isolation carts which hold all of the PPE are messy and contain a variety of PPE (yet, not always the PPE actually required) which adds to the confusion. The scope of the project was to create signage for the everyday type of additional precautions: Contact, Droplet and Airborne, as well as, addressing wayfinding needs and sense making in the process with limitations like language barriers. This project was targeted to be tested and piloted by flu season 2019/2020, where the highest amount of PPE to be used.
A peek into my process
Site observation and space analysis performed
