Critical care Critical care departments can be intensive places to work. In addition to the usual hospital equipment such as a bed, locker and table, critical care bed spaces have several extra pieces of equipment including a ventilator and stacks for infusion pumps. By mapping and scoring bed space orientations, we hypothesized that it is possible to predict how nursing staff should feel working in these bed spaces. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the principles of feng shui apply to critical care bed spaces and therefore affect the inner harmony of nursing staff during a shift.