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Tiered classrooms are ideal for lectures, student presentations, and guest speakers. The classrooms are fully interactive and integrated with both wired and wireless instructional technology. The room’s layout and microphones make it easy to move about and participate in class discussions.

Active learning classrooms are designed for student collaboration. With LCD screens around the room, students always have a good view of presentations. Each table, or “pod,” is equipped with microphones, outlets, and inputs to share laptop screens onto the TVs so they can present from their seats. When not in use for teaching purposes, students can use these spaces for studying.

The 300-seat auditorium hosts a wide variety of events, including the White Coat Ceremony and the Littlefield Leadership Lecture.

More than half of Cooper Hall’s second floor is devoted to the Center for Technology-Enhanced Nursing (CTEN), a suite of fully functional, simulated environments where students get to practice their skills hands-on. Our active learning environments address health care’s standard of excellence: team-based, patient-centered care that stretches from the first clinic visit or hospital admission to in-home monitoring, encompassing the entire continuum of care. When clinical sites closed their doors to student nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic, the remainder of their clinical hours were completed in CTEN, ensuring on-time completion for graduating students.

In the Shapiro Hospital Suite, students get to use state-of-the-art technology and experience high-pressure, high-stakes health emergencies in a safe setting. The human patient simulators can re-create health scenarios at every stage of patients’ lives. The hospital suite includes:

• 1 patient & visitor waiting area
• 4 hospital rooms
• 2 control rooms
• 2 debriefing rooms
• 1 fully functional patient bathroom
• 1 medication room
• 1 nurses’ station

• 6 examination rooms
• 1 large skills lab
• 1 patient waiting area

Students can practice providing care in a fully functioning one-bedroom apartment that simulates where a patient might reside. This area is equipped with floor sensors, cameras, and a state-of-the-art video recording and debriefing system.