Transcript: Sac State Nursing ready to move in to CalSTRS Bulding

Student: Hello Mr. Bowman, your call light was on, where do you feel badly?

Ian St. Martin, Nursing Student: I believe that with the nursing program expanded we would be able to have more students coming through here, which means more nurses out in the community.

Ann Stoltz, Chair and Associate Professor of Nursing: Currently with 80 students we’re having to shuffle labs for 12 hours a day to try and get all the students through the labs. So it’s very important that we’re able to provide the experiences to our new students so that we can turn out the absolute best professional nurse that we can.

Student: We’re going to take good care of you just give us a moment.

Stoltz: every time we do a simulation we have to move everything out that’s in there and put everything back in, so it’s a tremendous amount of moving to get the simulation labs up and running to go. They’re constantly moving heavy simulators and mannequins.

St. Martin: Before classes begin they’ll start going through and taking the different simulators and putting them in the different rooms.

Stoltz: What’s really for the whole community that we establish this building as a nursing school and not just Sac State. Because we’re giving back to the community baccalaureate-prepared nurses that can go on to become faculty in a grave time of faculty shortage.
This would be the clinic, the pediatric lab, the nursery. We’ll have six simulation labs, we’ll have two full-skills labs, so we’ll be able to leave the equipment in the rooms. They’ll be up and ready to go at anytime. We will not have to be moving equipment in and out like we do now. All the classrooms will be in one area. They will be fully functional – ready to go. I think it’s amazing we could conceivably run clinics here for the outside community, and well-baby clinics and immunization clinics and really give back to the community as well. So I think it’s a great opportunity and one that’s been needed for a long time.

St. Martin: It’s extremely important to this region. A lot of the nurses that I see throughout the hospital as I am getting a job have mentioned that they have come here from Sac State. I believe we’re getting a very good education at this school.

Stoltz: Oh my gosh, if we could just have this space and be able to increase the size of our program and really fine tune some of our labs. This is really an opportunity. I am so excited to see this and we’ll take it as-is. I just love it.