With an aim to provide real-world scenarios to help students improve their clinical nursing skills, the new 36,500 square feet facility will accommodate collaborative learning spaces, top-notch technology, and simulation labs.
Designed to receive or exceed LEED certification, the building will provide state-of-the-art instructional facilities for education and nursing, including clinical simulation labs necessary to support the full-time undergraduate nursing program, which began in fall 2011. It will also help in enhancing the existing graduate nursing and RN-to-BSN programs in the School of Nursing.
Benefitting over 2,000 students in the two programs, the new space will allow the School of Education to increase its capacity to offer professional development for local pre K-12 school faculties. The new building will offer technologically rich classrooms and an instructional resource space for individual and student group, and will help in providing high-quality learning environments for all NDMU students.
The nursing facilities are scheduled to be completed in time for the 2014 academic year.
