The Health Sciences Center is home to the Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing.  This is the east side of the Center. Scroll down below to check out the rest of our facilities.

This is the west side of the Health Sciences Center.

In the first floor atrium of the Health Sciences Center is a bust of Fay W. Whitney, Professor Emeritus, School of Nursing, for whom the school was renamed in 2003 as a result of a three million dollar gift to the university as a birthday gift to Fay from her husband Roy.

Read about her illustrious career and contributions to nursing by visiting the School of Nursing History page as well as Whitney's faculty page.

This is part of the atrium mentioned above, with couches and chairs about the room for study or relaxation, and a beautiful view of campus through the enormous windows.

The Nightingale Center for Nursing Scholarship (NCNS) is located on the 4th floor. Left, NCNS manager Terrie Wiederich guides one of the five graduate and undergraduate students currently working in the center to assist faculty with research projects. Faculty research posters are displayed on the walls of the center.

Alumni will remember the Learning Resource Center (LRC) in the basement of the School of Nursing. With the move into the renovated College of Health Sciences Building in the summer of 2005, the LRC is now on the third floor with beautiful surroundings and views.

The LRC will soon become the Clinical Simulation Center (CSC).  The skills lab is equipped with six state-of-the-art beds and headwalls from Hill-Rom. The headwalls have functional suction, air, and oxygen. There is also the capability to record at the bed stations.

...A small conference room breaks off into...

...six state-of-the-art fully-equipped exam rooms.

...Each exam room has a state-of-the-art observation area...

...where instructors can observe and record the happenings within the exam room...

The clinical Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) lab houses the microscopes and other equipment for the FNP students.

The media lab allows the students to work on a computer or view a videotape or DVD.

The reception area doubles as a nursing station.

The demonstration classroom is the ultimate in state-of-the-art audiovisual equipment. It is equipped with three cameras, computer projection system, two large screens, 48 laptop computers, Hill-Rom power column, and other capabilities too numerous to mention.

The simulation lab is a multi-use area and has a community health area...

...a critical care room for SimMan...

...an obstetrics room, a pediatrics room, and another acute care area (partially pictured below). Another observation room is positioned between the obstetrics and SimMan rooms.

Nursing Anne (pictured here) and Nursing Kid are run from a hand-held controller and a Vital Sim device. They are not quite as sophisticated as SimMan but have programmable vital signs, lung sounds, heart sounds, abdominal sounds, and fetal heart tones. Pre-programmed scenarios are also available.

You enter the room and the patient says, "I don't feel good." This isn't your usual patient environment or your usual patient. This patient room is the critical care room in our school and this patient is SimMan, the newest addition to the simulation family. He is a full-body, anatomically accurate patient simulator who can be programmed to simulate a wide range of illnesses, signs and symptoms.

Simulation has been a part of nursing education at the school for many years by using numerous full-body baby, child, male, female and geriatric manikins and also by utilizing specific simulators for such skills as urinary catheterization, tracheostomy care, and the list goes on and on.

Thank you for taking our tour. Feel free to come by and tour our facilities in person.