By fall 2020, Assumption nursing and physician assistant students will be housed in the institution’s new state-of-the-art, three-story Health Sciences building.
The 41,000-square-foot facility is located next to the Emmanuel d’Alzon Library, across from the Hagan Campus Center, and offers:
NURSING FLOOR
• Four classrooms equipped with full audio/visual Apple technology to facilitate active learning
• A large nursing clinical skills lab with seven full- sized hospital beds for teaching patient care
• Four simulation labs with high-fidelity mannequins, which can simulate actual patient conditions (vitals, seizures, cardiac arrest, childbirth, etc.), all of which are controlled remotely and include a recording system to be used for debriefings following lab exercises
PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT (PA) STUDIES FLOOR
• A practice lab with 11 exam tables for teaching diagnostics
• Two simulation labs comparable to the nursing floor, plus four objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) rooms where live actors dictate a script of medical maladies to teach students how to take a full medical history and diagnose a patient
• PA practice lab
SPACES FOR STUDY AND COLLABORATION
Throughout the spacious building with an interior illuminated by natural light, students will have access to lounges; smaller breakout spaces, debriefing rooms, and conference rooms; nine offices for faculty and staff; and suites for each of the deans.
