College Briefs

 

2’ Theatre Terrific benefit
@vissise: will be held Sunday, May 16
at 2pm at the Arts Club Theatre on Gran-
ville Island for Theatre Terrific, the
theatre program for special needs adults.
It’s a goods and services auction, and ce-
lebrities such as Terry David Mulligan and
Jim Byrnes will be there. Call Bobbie
Boehm at 5171 for more information.

@® Thank you to College
employees...

AIDS Vancouver and the Living Through

Loss Counselling Society of B.C. wish to

thank all those people from Douglas Col-

lege who made donations to those groups

through the United Way campaign.

@® Library summer hours
Mo, Fri 8:30am-4:30pm; Tu, We, Th
8:30am-8pm; Sa, Su closed

@® Assessment Centre
summer hours
(effective May 1)

Mo closed; Tu 8:30am-4:30pm

We 8:30am-1:30pm; Th, Fr 9am-4pm

Sa, Su closed

&® For rent

Luxury 32-ft travel trailer on a fully serv-
iced lot in a quiet wilderness setting at
Tapadera Estates, Harrison Mills.

Call 435-9877 or 641-5210.

®® Forrent

3-bedroom cabin, June or July on Sechelt
Inlet near a sandy beach & with use of a
canoe. $300/week in July, $250/week in
June, or $50/night. Call Jean Hammer at
939-5777 or Corrie Epp at 527-5199.

&® Forrent

2-bedroom ocean-front summer cottage
on Denman Island, available May 1.
$85/night, $500/week. Call Jean
oe" at 925-1549.

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Donation to nursing program
funds new learning centre

 

 

 

 

 

Douglas College Board member Grace Joe (left), herself

a retired Registered Nurse and teacher, chats with Nurs-

ing Instructor Susan Greathouse during the ribbon-cut-

ting ceremony for the new computer workstations In the

nursing lab on April 21.

The day when computers are a familiar part of a hospital room isn’t far away. In the
nursing program at Douglas College, that day’s already here.

Thanks to a $43,750 donation from the Helene Fuld Health Trust, Douglas College nursing
students now train in a state-of-the-art interactive learning centre. Exercises such as mixing
and administering medicine and communicating with patients can now be done just like
the real thing.

"The computers are right by the beds, so students get to practise in a very realistic environ-
ment, and see the effects of their actions and evaluate them," says instructor Susan
Greathouse.

"If they're setting up IV’s, they can stop the segment and then go over to the bed and
practice that skill. It lets them practise difficult concepts over and over."

The five workstations consist of 486 computers with laser disc players, colour monitors,
and speakers, so nursing exercises can be carried out in a realistic, multimedia setting.

"It brings clinical learning situations into a safe environment," says Health Sciences Direc-
tor Joy Holmwood. "We think it will have a positive effect on student success. It broadens
the range of learning and of review. It lets students who have difficulty come back to the
lab and learn things completely."

The money came from a fund established by Helene Fuld, who was an American health cru-
sader late in the last century. Its mission is to improve the health, education and welfare of
student nurses. "The Douglas College proposal was one of 144 funded out of 385 requests
last year, so we're very happy," says Greathouse, who chairs the College Health Sciences
Department Computer Committee.