UE Nursing Receives Grant for Simulation Lab Equipment
Published: September 03, 2009
The University of Evansville’s Dunigan Family Department of Nursing & Health Sciences will receive a boost in equipment this semester, thanks to a generous grant from the Southwest Indiana Area Health Education Center (SWI-AHEC).
SWI-AHEC awarded UE the grant, in the amount of $14,258.95, to enhance clinical simulation education in UE’s Dunigan Nursing Laboratory, located on the first floor of Wallace Graves Hall. The grant will allow UE Nursing to purchase several new pieces of equipment for the lab, thus giving students more comprehensive and realistic experience with equipment used in today’s health care facilities.
“Earlier this year, we received word from SWI-AHEC that they were offering one-time grants for equipment that would enhance the clinical education of nursing students,” said Amy Hall, chair of UE’s Dunigan Family Department of Nursing & Health Sciences. “Obviously, we jumped at the opportunity, and were excited to learn that our request had been granted. Through these funds, we will be able to give our students an even stronger educational experience, helping them better understand everything from the administration of intravenous fluids to the proper methods for giving CPR.”
Among the equipment UE will purchase with the SWI-AHEC funds are IV pumps; automatic external defibrillators; and anesthesia, emergency, and isolation carts. All of the equipment is expected to be purchased before the end of the current semester.
