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SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 2012
MONTANA TECH
Nursing’s new home State-of-the-art facility brings program onto main campus BY JOHN GRANT EMEIGH of The Montana Standard
KAREN VANDAVEER, left, director of Tech’s nursing program, stands next to a simulated hospital ward in the new Health Science building on the campus. PHOTO BY NICK GEVOCK / THE MONTANA STANDARD
Grand opening Thursday
It’s good to feel needed. The staff in the newly A grand opening of remodeled Health Montana Tech’s recently Sciences Building is renovated Health excited to be working in Sciences Building will be the heart of the campus at held from 4 to 7 p.m. Montana Tech. Assistant Thursday, March 29, in professor Miriam Young the old Petroleum said she’s glad to be in her Engineering Building. new office on the main People can tour the campus, a relocation from nursing department, meet the College of Technology the nursing faculty, staff in south Butte. and students, and watch “We feel like we’re part student demonstrations in of the campus now,” both the fundamental and Young said. “We felt like simulation labs. we were the stepchild Visitors may also before.” explore the programs The campus spent offered by the Institute for $2.8 million renovating the Educational Opportunities former Petroleum (formerly Technical Engineering building, Outreach), observe which is located at the demonstrations and meet center of the campus. The the institute staff, who remodeled facility now has provide the resources more than 16,000 square needed for students to feet of space for both the succeed in higher Nursing Department and education. the Institute for Educational Opportunity. institute, said the building Amy Verlanic, the executive director of the See PROGRAM, Page 9A
TOP PHOTO: THE Health Science building on the was formerly the Petroleum Engineering building. WALTER HINICK / THE MONTANA STANDARD
ONE OF THE NEW classrooms for the nursing program is pictured at right. The modern, state-of-theart facility prepares students to hit the ground running when they graduate and enter the working medical world. WALTER HINICK / THE MONTANA STANDARD
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classrooms will be used this summer for low-income high school students to take a college simulation courses to prepare and Continued from page 8A encourage them to seek higher education. “Our goal is to encourage students to will be used by 22 of her staff and 11 from pursue math and science,” Verlanic said. the Nursing Department. Likewise, the Nursing Department will “This is a really exciting time for us,” now have four classrooms and two Verlanic said. nursing labs. These classrooms will be She said it was a good decision to remodel the building as opposed to build- equipped with multimedia and high-tech ing a new facility. Verlanic noted that this equipment. One lab will include a simulated manis a historical building with a distinctive look. The remodeling changed the interior nequin of an adult and a simulated baby, so nurses can train with them like an without changing the original façade. actual patient. The other lab will be for The building has three floors and will be available for technical outreach for stu- basic hospital training. Thursday’s open house, from 4 to dents. The facility will house the 7 p.m., will be an opportunity for the AmeriCorps operations to help students public to meet the entire staff and tour the get credit for community service. The facility. There will be guest speakers, basement level will be the headquarters along with music, food and activities. for the Clark Fork Watershed Education “The event itself will be a lot of fun,” Program. Verlanic said. Verlanic said the state-of-the-art
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TOP PHOTO: MONTANA TECH NURSING students gather around their patient, a “sim man,” in their new Health and Sciences Building. The sim dummies, which were purchased last year, are key pieces of a nurse’s training because they help simulate different health conditions. The dummies also include “sim babies,” above, for the nursing students to practice on. The college offers associates and bachelor’s degrees in nursing and the number of majors in the tracks comes in only behind petroleum and general engineering, which are the two most popular majors at Tech. WALTER HINICK PHOTOS / THE MONTANA STANDARD
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A NURSING STATION, above, and a computer classroom, above right, are part of the remodeled interior of the Health and Sciences Building. The space was needed as nursing has grown to become the third largest degree program on campus.
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