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Clinical Lab

The Learning Resource Center (LRC) provides six state of the art large practice labs, two individual simulation rooms, a community health room and three standardized patient rooms. Within these spaces there are electronic hospital beds and related up-to-date medical equipment, a variety of adult, pediatric and maternity human patient simulators, nursing models, and electronic and diagnostic equipment to facilitate the simulation of clinical areas and situations.

Two labs are used weekly at the sophomore level for instruction in and practice of nursing fundamental and physical assessment skills and at predetermined times during the junior and senior years in conjunction with the students' clinical courses.  Lab sessions are also held for the nurse practitioner, RN and nurse anesthesia students. Additional hours are available for extra practice sessions or clinical skill remediation of undergraduates conducted by nursing graduate assistants.