Later this week, Pittsburg State University will officially cut the ribbon on a new multi-million dollar building addition. KRPS’s Fred Fletcher-Fierro has more.
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When the original Irene Ransom Bradley School of Nursingwas constructed in 1977 it was built to accommodate 60 students.
Due to an increased demand for nursing students over the years Pittsburg State have asked building contractors to stretch the size of the facility to accommodate 90 students, but it was clear that a new wing of the School of Nursing was going to be required to continue to welcome the growing field of health professionals.
The new wing now allows the PSU School of Nursing to accept 120 students and graduate assistants. Pittsburg State University Architect Lindell Haverstic says the addition was built to look less like a classroom and more like a hospital.
“Part of the simulation hospital as you go into the addition there is a storefront similar to what you would see in a modern hospital setting. And you go into that area and you have a nurses station, reception area. And six simulation patient rooms.”
A unique feature of the Irene Ransom Bradley School of Nursing is the geothermal wells that heat and cool the building — the only academic building at PSU that is entirely heated and cooled with geothermal energy, a renewable resource because it harnesses the earth’s heat.
The ribbon cutting will be held Thursday.
