Sacred Heart University celebrates expanded Center for Healthcare Education
Improvements include multiple multi-purpose classrooms, 24 new faculty and staff offices, two bedside skills labs and three simulation labs with control rooms for immersive clinical training. There are also breakout rooms, lounges, study areas and a new parking garage.
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Sacred Heart University celebrated the expansion of its Center for Healthcare Education on Thursday. They say it marks a significant investment in the future of health care.
Students, staff and community members toured the new state-of-the-art additions to the building.
Improvements include multiple multi-purpose classrooms, 24 new faculty and staff offices, two bedside skills labs and three simulation labs with control rooms for immersive clinical training. There are also breakout rooms, lounges, study areas and a new parking garage.
Staff say the goal is to enhance hands-on learning for students studying nursing and health professions, so it is both on the cutting edge and engaging.
"One of the things we're adding here is additional simulation facilities where they can play with large human-sized plastic dolls that can breathe. They can scream, they can have babies, they can have seizures. And that way they can play here and learn things instead of seeing something really bad happen to someone at the hospital for the first time and not understanding it," says Karen Daley, Ph.D., RN, the dean of Dr. Susan L. Davis, RN, & Richard J. Henley College of Nursing.
Daley says the upgrades will allow the school to expand its nursing program at a time when there is a critical need for nurses.
Officials add that the school is actively developing new academic programs to meet the workforce needs in health care.
