Hospitals for many people are not just a space, but become places for them as they frequent them especially as they age. Also for the many people that work there they are not just spaces, the become places filled with meaning to them. Nurses tend to see hospitals as ‘home spaces’ or places for the patients that are there especially ones that have longer visits. There is more interaction among the patients and staff in these situations allowing deeper relationships develop, giving the patients a therapeutic environment shaped into more of a place than a space. However, the implications of merging the distinctly different spaces and places of home and hospital are also explored using the concepts of hybridity and spatial vulnerability. The complex hybrid nursing creation of home space within hospital places works against the grain of usual understandings of hospitals as specialized illness spaces that are the domain of the health professional inhabitants.
When looking at the hospital as an organizational space, it includes both the physical environment as well as how these spaces are used. For nurses the hospital is not just a place of work but also a place of interaction between patients, their families and other staff members. However, in being a nurse there are limitations to the spaces within the hospital that they are allowed to be in compared to the doctors that have more access to areas of the hospital along with the patients that have even more limited access and freedom to roam through the hospital. Yet I would still consider them places and not just spaces for anyone that has any interaction with hospitals.
When looking at the hospital as an organizational space, it includes both the physical environment as well as how these spaces are used. For nurses the hospital is not just a place of work but also a place of interaction between patients, their families and other staff members. However, in being a nurse there are limitations to the spaces within the hospital that they are allowed to be in compared to the doctors that have more access to areas of the hospital along with the patients that have even more limited access and freedom to roam through the hospital. Yet I would still consider them places and not just spaces for anyone that has any interaction with hospitals.
Article: Hybrid space: constituting the hospital as a home space for patients
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1440-1800.2006.00276.x?journalCode=nin 
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