Your nurses are walking too much — and it's costing patients.

Your nurses are walking too much — and it's costing patients. When supplies are stored far from where care happens, every shift becomes a marathon of wasted steps. Lean operations principles show us that unit layout directly shapes how much time staff spend on motion versus medicine. Spaghetti diagrams, supply repositioning, and smart unit redesign can cut that waste without adding staff. Better layout = more hands on patients, less feet on floors.