NEW NURSING BUILD AT DKIT
February 2005
STUDENTS move into a new specialist nurse training facility at Dundalk Institute of Technology.
At full capacity the €15.5 million glass-fronted building will accommodate 440 students on a four-year course.
It covers 4,000 square metres, has a 160-seater theatre, six 70-seater lecture theatres, three computer labs, three clinical skills labs with a sx-bedded ward in each, staff offices, cafe area, meeting rooms, classrooms and laboratories.
The facility has a staff of 50, most of whom have been recruited.
The building is centred around a sensory garden to give a therapeutic experience and draw attention to the therapeutic dimension of health care.
Included is an intensive care ward, fully equipped with dummy patients which will allow lecturers to simulate heart attacks and other illnesses.
‘It is an exceptional building which will be a major asset to the area and contribute much to medical services in this country in the coming decades,’ says DkIT director Dr. Tom Collins.