Hospital Let's Pretend Hospital is the largest community service project of The University of Alabama in Huntsville. Let's Pretend Hospital each Spring in cooperation with Huntsville Hospital and the hospital volunteers. This service project is designed to teach first graders about health care experiences and to help decrease children's anxieties about hospitalization. Let's Pretend Hospital annually. The simulated hospital includes an admitting area, emergency room, radiology, patient's room, play area, operating room, and the business office.
Students perform their own skits and role play in presenting the various hospital areas.
In collaboration with this Health Care Coalition, Registered Nurse students are provided the opportunity to assist homebound elders to maintain activities of independent living. This service and educational initiative utilizes the expertise of the Registered Nurse students while providing much needed care to an underserved population. Back to top Research Faculty and students of the College of Nursing are actively involved in multiple research projects and initiatives. Research interests of the faculty are broad and varied, and many graduate and undergraduate students have multiple opportunities to be involved in the research process. Some examples of current research in process involves strategies for women with breast cancer, nursing strategies for children with leukemia, health promotion strategies of family caregivers, non-invasive techniques for physiologic measurements, protocols for intravenous therapies, the homeless and chronic mental illness therapies.