Nursing Facilities
A multi-phase renovation of UNI’s Innovative Teaching and Technology Center (ITTC) at the center of campus has created a new home for the Department of Nursing & Public Health, allowing competency-based education within an environment that models clinical settings. Learning spaces integrate the traditional classroom experience with labs fully-equipped to facilitate active learning, simulations and hands-on experiences with patients.
Focused on Integrated Care
The Bachelor of Science in Nursing program is housed in the Innovative Teaching and Technology Center (ITTC), where students learn in modern clinical environments designed to reflect real healthcare settings.
On the third floor, students have access to classrooms, faculty and department offices, a health assessment skills lab, a foundation skills lab and state-of-the-art simulation suites. In these spaces, students work with lifelike manikins to practice essential nursing skills such as administering IVs, checking vital signs, performing CPR and building confidence in patient care.
The ground floor expands this hands-on learning with a medical-surgical lab, simulation suites and a fully immersive hospital-style environment. These spaces include trauma, critical care, labor and delivery, pediatric and community health training areas, along with a nurses’ station, medication administration area and simulated electronic medical records system.
Students also train using advanced technology such as high-fidelity simulators and the Anatomage Table, a life-sized digital cadaver that allows for detailed, three-dimensional exploration of human anatomy. Together, these facilities prepare future nurses to deliver skilled, compassionate care in healthcare settings across Iowa and beyond.
Our hallmark is we want our graduates to be practice ready. What that means is when they walk out the door, they're still newly-prepared nurses, but they can critically think, take care of multiple patients and have a higher level of function once they graduate than we typically see.
“I was in awe the first time I walked through here.”
UNI nursing students are getting their first look at the newly completed Phase III space, a realistic mini hospital unit filled with advanced simulators, trauma suites and immersive patient-care technology. Read how the renovation is shaping their future in healthcare.
HEALTH ASSESSMENT & HEALTH PROMOTION
Designed to provide a dedicated space for lecture, skills training, and simulation as students master physical assessment competencies. Students have access to state-of-the-art equipment, including:
- Smart classroom
- Task trainers
- Specialized simulators (cardiac/lung, pregnancy)
- Advanced ophthalmoscopes
- Otoscopes
- Medium-fidelity Laerdal simulators
- Medical-grade hospital beds & exam tables
- Advanced Vital Sign Trainers
FOUNDATIONAL NURSING CARE
Designed to provide a dedicated space for lecture, skills training and simulation as students master foundational nursing competencies. Students have access to state-of-the-art equipment, including:
- Smart classroom
- Task trainers
- IV pumps
- Specialized simulators (cardiac/lung)
- Advanced ophthalmoscopes
- Otoscopes
- Medium-fidelity Laerdal simulators
- Medical-grade hospital beds
- Advanced Vital Sign Trainers
- Medication Cart
- Electronic Medical Record
SIMULATION SUITES
Controlled environments that replicate real-world healthcare scenarios for students to practice clinical skills and improve decision-making. They provide a safe and realistic way for students to learn without putting patients at risk. Students work in small groups using Laerdal high-fidelity simulators, patient monitoring equipment, medication administration, IV pumps and electronic medical records. The suite is set up as a hospital room, which can accommodate various simulated scenarios and helps to prepare students for a real clinical setting. SimCapture training tools turn skills practice into insights by sending recorded information into the cloud for later viewing by students and faculty.