The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing is preparing to break ground on a 29,947-square-foot addition that will connect to the existing nursing buildings on campus. Construction of the $23.6 million facility will begin in late spring and is expected to open in August 2018.
The new School of Nursing building will be a five-floor structure housing technologically advanced classrooms, conference and seminar rooms, student services offices, faculty offices, and a state-of-the-art simulation teaching lab allowing students to develop complex skills and receive real-time feedback during clinical nursing hours. Virtual classrooms will use leading-edge distance technology to facilitate distance learning techniques. Additional nursing classroom space will also create free space in one of the existing nursing buildings allowing that space to be dedicated to research and a special group of research faculty.
Linda Norman, dean and Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing at Vanderbilt tells News.Vanderbilt.edu, “The building expansion is needed to accommodate the increased number of students, faculty and staff, and to ensure the school continues to attract and recruit the best students and faculty.” After an increase in nursing students from 580 in 2006 to 879 in 2017, the School of Nursing has to find a way to facilitate their exponential growth.
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