Design, Construction and Planning
Bosch Lab
Led by Sheila Bosch · Interior Design
What we study
The Bosch Lab studies how healthcare environments affect people. A recent student project drew design strategies from hospital safety guidelines to reduce workplace violence; its papers cover nurse stress and emergency department design.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Coding helps
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Under Pressure: Identifying Environmental Design Strategies to Moderate the Risk of Workplace Violence in Healthcare Settings
The lab examined existing safety guidelines for hospitals, pulled out design ideas that make assaults harder, and built a checklist to help architects create safer workspaces for healthcare staff.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 133
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Nurse-Informed Flexibility in Healthcare Design: Stakeholder Perspectives on Feasible Strategies for Practice
2026 · HERD Health Environments Research & Design Journal
Asks nurses about ways to make hospitals more flexible for daily and emergency care.
- Integrating resilience engineering into sustainability education: evaluating a SAMPL model for competency-driven building material selection
2026 · Smart and Sustainable Built Environment
Tests a new teaching method for sustainable building materials in a university course.
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- Mitigating workplace violence in emergency departments: preliminary development and assessment of an environmental design decision-support tool
2025 · Architectural Engineering and Design Management
Develops a tool to help design emergency rooms that reduce violence against healthcare workers.
- Preliminary Development of Items for a Nurses’ Physical Environmental Stress Scale
2024 · HERD Health Environments Research & Design Journal
Develops a scale to measure stress in ICU nurses from their work environment.
- From Stressful to Mindful: Reactions to a Proposed Emergency Department Design for Enhancing Mindfulness and Stress Reduction Among Healthcare Clinical Staff
2023 · HERD Health Environments Research & Design Journal
Tests whether redesigning an emergency department can help reduce stress in clinicians.
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How to reach out
Sheila Bosch hasn't set up this page yet. Their UF Scholars profile lists their publications.