Photo courtesy SHSUConstruction has begun at Sam Houston State University's The Woodlands Center on a new nursing wing. The facility will accompany Sam Houston State's nursing program within the newly created College of Health Sciences.
Officials at the university decided to expand its program to meet the need for more nurses, said Anne Stiles, director of the school of nursing at SHSU.
"There is a nationwide goal for 80 percent of nurses to have a bachelor's degree by 2020," said Michael Lacourse, dean of the College of Health Sciences. He estimated the 2014 number is less than 30 percent.
The new facility will house two skills laboratories and a simulation lab with five rooms, Stiles said. Each skills lab will have eight beds with high-fidelity patient simulators, one each for an infant, child and adult.
