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• Fall 2008 Semester Class Schedule

On-line Courses and Technology

The nursing curriculum consists of web-based as well as web-enhanced courses. The students are given an orientation to Blackboard, the media on which the material is presented. Additionally, Nursing 200, Health Technology and Informatics, is required of all nursing students to orient them to the latest tools required in the nursing program. The use of web-based and web-enhanced courses allows students to direct their own learning outcomes.

The Clinical Learning Center is located on the campus of Southeastern Regional Medical Center (SRMC), for both pre-licensure and RN-BSN students. It is equipped for student simulation learning related to healthcare situations with clients of diverse cultures across the lifespan. The skills labs and virtual learning center have state-of-the-art equipment and software to enhance student-learning opportunities. The basic and advanced care labs as well as the maternal-child lab are patterned after current equipment used at SRMC. The Clinical Learning Center is available to students twelve hours a day, six days a week with plans to expand to twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. This will provide students more opportunity to achieve expected course learning outcomes.

When the Instructional Technology Center is operational there will be:

1) A Basic Care Lab is equipped with four advanced care bed units, to simulate hospital/clinic environment, and a variety of practice models. Each bed site is equipped with wall connections for O2 and suction and connections for a PC. There are plans to equip the Basic Care lab with a mounted video camera for the purpose of recording and analyzing student performance. Attached to this lab are a medication preparation area with sink, cabinets and room for a mobile medication cart.

2) A Health Assessment Lab is equipped with six complete exam units and multiple simulation practice models. Students can practice on each other in a private, hands-on clinical setting with new examination tables, mounted opthalmascopes and otoscopes and the convenience of instructors available when needed.

3) An Advanced Care Lab is equipped with four advanced care bed units and two adult mannequins with audible, programmable, heart and breath sounds. Each bed site is equipped with monitoring equipment wired to the manikins and to remote equipment. There are plans to equip a mounted video camera and a PC at the foot of each bed.

4) A Maternal-Child Lab is equipped with two bed units and special obstetrical mannequins. Two pediatric bed units as well as newborn and neonatal intensive care units will be available. Mannequins have audible and programmable capabilities to enhance student learning. The maternal-child lab features equipment used to assist premature and sick infants as well as what is expected normally.

5) The Howard and Brenda Brooks Home Care Lab simulates a room in a private home so that high-tech nursing can be practiced in a low-tech environment. There are two home-style beds with two geriatric mannequins. Attached to the room is a home-style lavatory with a vanity sink and bathtub.

6) A Virtual Learning Center is designed for independent and small group activities. Furnishings will provide for quiet reading, small group work, VHS/DVD viewing, and use of computers for assignments, internet search, word processing, fax, etc. The Center houses 15 state-of-the-art Pentium PCs with workstations; also included in the center are televisions, printers and multiple virtual reality simulations such as CathSim Venipuncture simulation and Animated Dissection of Anatomy for Medicine (ADAM) comprehensive software. In addition, students have access to computer labs in both the main campus Nursing Department as well as University library.

Updated: Friday, August 22, 2008

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