Pittsburg State's newly remodeled and expanded Irene Ransom School of Nursing is nearly complete.
The university allowed media members to tour and speak with PSU students about the facility.
KRPS's Fred Fletcher-Fierro was there and filed this report.
McPherson Hall, home to the Irene Ransom School of Nursing, was completed in 1977 and built to house 60 students.
Twenty-eight years later, in 2005, the school had a minor expansion for 16 additional students.
With the demand for nurses outstripping supply, prior to this new 8 million dollar renovation, the school's highest number of students could accommodate was 90.
With the addition of 10,000 square feet, including two state-of-the-art classrooms and six rooms with patient simulators, the Ransom School of Nursing can now accept 120 students.
One of those scholars is Webb City's Daniel Mendoza, a Junior Nursing student at Pitt State who says he spent his first year at another nearby university before transferring to PSU.
"The reputation of the nursing school definitely was one of the determining factors why I came to Pittsburg State. I actually went to a different university my freshman year, then transferred to Pittsburg State afterwards."
The new wing of the school of nursing is scheduled to open on August 31, in time for the fall 2024 semester. For 89 9 KRPS News, I'm Fred Fletcher-Fierro
