NAMING OPPORTUNITIES
COLLEGE OF NURSING CLINICAL EDUCATION BUILDING
SOLVING THE NURSING WORKFORCE SHORTAGE
A 52,000-square-foot state-of-the-art nursing simulation center and teaching space.
The University of South Carolina will increase their pre-licensure graduates by 80 percent (from 220 to 400 nurses per year) over the next decade. This 52,000-square-foot facility houses a state-ofthe-art simulation center and classroom space to provide clinical education and simulation training for the university’s third- and fourth-year nursing bachelor’s students as well as Master’s Entry to Practice Nursing students.
A true private-public partnership, Lexington Medical Center constructed the building on the hospital system’s West Columbia campus. The College of Nursing will raise additional funds needed to upfit the space with equipment and classroom technology to prepare nurses for today’s complex health care needs.
The new facility serves BSN upper division (juniors and seniors) and Master’s Entry to Practice Nursing (MEPN) students. In addition, clinical immersion for nurse practitioner students are held at this campus.
Pre-nursing freshman and sophomore students, as well as the graduate and PhD nursing programs (excluding graduate immersion) remain on the college’s Columbia campus. Research centers and the Center for Nursing Leadership also remain on the Columbia campus.
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49 States
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CENTER FOR SIMULATION AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
1 MILLION
Most innovative teaching techniques and tools are available through simulation—an immersive teaching modality that replicates clinical scenarios in realistic practice environments. Students function within the full scope of practice, engaging in decision-making and interventions that only licensed registered nurses can do in patient care settings.
ACUTE CARE SUITE SIM CENTER
250 K
This replicates a typical hospital room and can be adapted for hospitalized adults or children. The suite holds rooms that can be transitioned from an intensive care unit room.
PRIMARY CARE SUITE
SIM CENTER
200 K
Students learn how to care for and communicate with patients and families, and then discuss decisions made after the clinic encounter to a long term care facility bedroom to a home or community setting.
ACUTE CARE SIMULATION ROOM
100 K
EACH (8 TOTAL)
These simulation rooms are dedicated to instructing students through simulated scenarios. Through simulation, students may safely learn proper intervention during a crisis.
SKILLS SUITE SIM CENTER
75 K
EACH (3 TOTAL)
A designated section in the center where students will learn and practice clinical skills. One room has movable tracks to update the scenery to simulate care in multiple settings outside the hospital. Students undergo several weeks of skills training during their first semester, taking care of real patients in the clinical environment.
PRIMARY CARE ROOM
50 K
EACH (4 ROOMS)
These simulation rooms are dedicated to instructing students through simulated scenarios in ambulatory and primary care settings.
DEBRIEFING ROOM
50 K
EACH (5 4 TOTAL)
Debriefing is considered the most important part of the simulation event. Each room has white boards and large, flat screen TV’s for video playback.
COMMUNITY APARTMENT
50 K
These simulation rooms are dedicated to instructing students through simulated scenarios in ambulatory and primary care settings.
CLASSROOM
125 K
EACH (3 2 TOTAL)
A variety of settings, from the traditional classroom setting to innovative spaces, fostering critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills. This learning space provides the ability to deliver effective training to large groups, with the flexibility to break into smaller rooms for other interactive learning activities.
CLASSROOM SEAT
400 PER SEAT
(WITH PLATE ON BACK – 500 IN CLASSROOMS AND 60 IN COLLABORATORY)
State of the art learning technology, flexible furniture for small group case study, rooms can be opened to each other for interprofessional education and event space. This is a great way to honor a nurse, alumni, student or loved one.
COLLABORATORY
125 K
Faculty utilize document cameras to project topics throughout the room. The setup of the room also allows faculty to implement class-wide collaboration and smaller group work, while integrating video, audio and patient images such as CT scans and X-rays.
STUDENT STUDY SPACE
30 K
EACH (4 2) FIRST FLOOR
A combination of soft seating (lounge seating, couches, and sofas) and hard seating. These interaction spaces allow students to be near other students who are working on similar projects, or near the classrooms, labs or faculty offices.
CONFERENCE ROOMS
25 K
EACH (2 1 TOTAL, 3RD FLOOR)
50 K
(1 TOTAL, 3RD FLOOR)
100 K
(1 0 TOTAL, 3RD FLOOR)
Technology equipped, advisor meeting space with students, faculty and staff small group meetings and dean’s executive meetings etc.
NAMING THE COLLEGE OF NURSING
25 MILLION (EXCLUDES PHYSICAL BUILDING)
The college considers this naming to be among the highest levels of recognition it can bestow.
