GREENSBORO - After nearly six years in the making the Union Square Campus in downtown Greensboro opened Friday.
The three-story building houses a unique nursing collaboration between Cone Health, GTCC, A&T State University, and UNCG.
“It was designed for nursing training,” said Vice President of the Joseph M. Bryan Foundation Ed Kitchen.
A profession that's in high demand.
"We need more trained nurses and we need better trained nurses and that's what this building is all about,” said Kitchen.
Standing three stories tall the building houses classrooms equipped with simulation tools giving students a hands on learning experience.
"Everything from the sophisticated manikins that are trained on, they emulate real live patients, to all kinds of mock settings,” said Kitchen. “We have a whole section for labor and delivery, we've got a home health care center, we've got an ICU, doctor's offices, and everything that you'd come in contact with."
Joshua Broadwell, a second year nursing student at GTCC, said, "I am excited to experience what it has to offer. The advanced stimulations that they have is going to help with the learning."
A positive move for the profession.
"This is a great way to form a workforce pipeline," said Kitchen.
Through a state of the art facility.
"To do all kinds of nurse training everything from the associate degree level at GTCC on up to the doctor of nursing practice at UNCG and all levels in between."
The first group of students will begin using the building when the fall semester starts, later this month.