Albany Tech opens new Nursing Lab

Albany Technical College cut the ribbon on a new nursing lab July 8, 2008 in the Nathaniel Cross Building. The last renovations to the nursing lab occurred in 1994 when flood waters heavily damaged the health technology building. The new lab simulates a state-of-the-art hospital setting, complete with private rooms, a nursing station, patient care rooms, a waiting room, a nursery for infant care, and up-to-date health care equipment.
 
“Our nursing students will learn in a similar clinical environment in which they will work,” said Dean of Academic Affairs, Dorothy Garner. “Therefore, they will receive the best training possible and will be better prepared to go straight to work once they graduate. Better educated nursing students mean better health care services for everyone in our community.”  
 
The nursing lab renovation cost $350,000 and was paid for with state funds and tuition and fees. Students will begin using the lab July 8th, the start of Summer Quarter.  

Kathryn McPhail
Director of Public Relations and Information
Albany Technical College
1704 S. Slappey Blvd.
Albany, GA 31701
Phone: (229) 430-5117
Fax: (229) 430-3594
kmcphail@albanytech.edu