Located at 2800 Goulden Ave in the Kingsbridge Heights section of the Bronx, the new 52,000 SF nursing school at Lehman College, aptly named the Nursing Education, Research, and Practice Center is a 5-story facility created to expand hands-on lab space to meet the growing need for healthcare workers in the Bronx. As the only public college in the borough to offer Bachelor’s and Graduate Degrees in nursing, the new school is poised to contribute to the pipeline of highly skilled, diverse, and culturally competent nursing professionals who live and work in the area.
The school contains a series of classrooms, simulation labs, student lounges, and faculty offices. Biophilic design principles were used throughout to develop a sense of connectivity to daylight and the natural environment, offering students ample places to take a break, recharge, and restore themselves.
At the core of the nursing program is a nursing simulation lab with twenty-two programmable, computerized patient simulators to recreate a full-size replica of a clinical environment in which students are exposed to real-world procedures. The intent is to offer an immersive training experience in a realistic, busy, hospital setting so that students may respond in kind to a variety of incidents
