Two teams of senior nursing students worked through a community nursing scenario with a professional Social Worker as patient in our Nursing Simulation Lab. The Fitchburg State University Nursing Simulation Laboratory assists nursing students in learning critical thinking and clinical judgment skills in preparation for their healthcare careers. The “manikins”, or "actors" act as  patients. Fellow students watch as their classmates work through the simulation. All students and faculty debrief after the scenario.

Students in Dr. Christopher Cratsley's Life Science for Educators course work on an experiment in the Antonucci Science Complex. This course covers a broad array of life science topics including cellular, organismal, and human biology. It is designed to provide a foundation in the life sciences for education majors (K-8). The course includes a laboratory component designed to develop the students' understanding of the scientific method and provide some biology methodologies that will aid students in the development of lesson plans and classroom activities. An integrative approach is taken for some aspects of this course to establish connections to other sciences (earth science, chemistry, engineering).

Students in Biology and Chemistry Professor Dennis Awasabisah's General Chemistry I Lab perform an experiment in the Antonucci Science Complex. The course explores the fundamental laws and theories of chemistry such as atomic structure, the periodic table, electrochemistry, descriptive inorganic chemistry, the gas laws, solutions, equilibrium calculations and chemical bonding. Chemical calculations are emphasized. 

 Earth and Geographic Sciences Professor Jane Huang works with Criminal Justice students in her GIS (Geographic Information System) for Criminal Justice course in the Antonucci Science Complex.  The course introduces students to the theory and application of crime mapping and analysis in a GIS (Geographic Information System) environment. Students will learn the criminological theories that supports crime analysis and place-based policing. Students will also learn the basic skills of using GIS to create crime maps and to analyze crime patterns. 

School of Health and Natural Sciences Professor Dr. Ronald Krieser held a Health Professions Advising session yesterday afternoon in the Antonucci Science Complex. This session focused on podiatry and suturing. Dr. D. Ghannoum, Chief Podiatric Surgery Resident, Saint Vincent Hospital talked with students about Podiatric Medicine, and Podiatric Medical School. He was then joined by three fellow Podiatrists to  conduct a workshop on suturing.

Students in Earth and Geographic Sciences Professor Elizabeth Gordon's Oceanography class learn about the density and salinity of seawater in the Antonucci Science Complex. This course is designed to provide students with an overview of fundamental scientific concepts that describe ocean processes. Topics include marine geology (ocean basins, sediments), marine chemistry (properties of seawater), and physical oceanography (waves, tides, currents), with some discussion of biological oceanography.

 Nursing  students learn the methods of, and importance of dealing with patient mobility issues in their Nursing Foundations Lab. In this course, emphasis is placed on professionalism, caring, communication, cultural considerations, spirituality, sexuality and health promoting activities. 

Students in Biology and Chemistry Professor Dr. Sean Rollins' Medical Microbiology course performed various procedures in their lab in the Antonucci Science Complex. The course serves as an introduction to the biology of major groups of micro-organisms including bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and fungi. Emphasis is placed on their relationship to man as agents of infectious diseases. In the laboratory principles and practices of aseptic techniques and diagnostic identification and culture of disease entities are explored.

Students in Biology and Chemistry Professor Steven Fiedler's Physical Chemistry I1 Lab work on various experiment in the Antonucci Science Complex. The course explores the underlying principles of chemistry from a physical chemistry standpoint. Topics of discussion include kinetic theory, theories of the structure of matter, theory of solutions, electrochemistry, thermodynamics, spectroscopy and kinetics.

A rotation of some of our third year nursing students got immersed in a hospital patient care check simulation for "patient" Michael Smith, under care for a post-operative abdominal surgery. Michael is not happy about his the ostomy he awoke with after surgery, is having nausea, pain, a seeping surgical would and needs his medications. Our Nursing Simulation Laboratory assists nursing students in learning critical thinking and clinical judgment skills in preparation for their healthcare careers. The “manikins” act as lifelike patient simulators, wherein instructors provide real-time feedback via a control center, giving students as close to real-life simulation as possible. Fellow students watch as their classmates work through the simulation. All students and faculty debrief after the scenario.