Assumption’s Newest State-of-the-Art Health Sciences Building

 

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. 

Health Sciences rendering

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.

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