Located on the fifth floor of the School of Nursing, the center is a multifunctional teaching and learning laboratory that allows students of all levels to develop knowledge and skills necessary for theory based practice. This special study environment serves the students in the School of Nursing by providing an excellent opportunity for independent learning, self and mediated instruction, computer-based instruction, and the practice of nursing skills. The Multimedia Center maintains an extensive collection of learning materials that enhances the learning of problem solving and critical thinking, and fosters skills acquisition. The center offers opportunities for teaching and learning in the cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains.
Students learn at their own pace using instructional media.
Providing this instruction are resources such as computer assisted instruction software, including new virtual reality simulation programs, interactive video computer programs, and, video and audio cassettes. The hardware equipment necessary to support these software holdings is available and located in a large, open carrel area that has varied patterns of workstations and seats. In addition, flipcharts, independent learning activities and modules are available. Students can practice in the fifteen bed hospital simulation laboratory with each unit consisting of an electric bed, bedside table, over bed table, bedside chair, hand washing facilities, and draw curtains. This lab also includes a functional intensive care head wall with suction, oxygen and a heart monitor, emergency and traditional medicine carts, and a separate medication room with knee gate hand washing facilities.