The Health Sciences Learning Center

The health sciences learning center offers students an ideal space for connecting, collaborating, and studying. Students can reserve classrooms and conference rooms, check out audio-visual equipment, or get assistance with course materials, all in this singularly convenient environment.

This new facility’s goal is to offer innovative and interdisciplinary education. It features standardized patient clinics, skills assessment labs, a simulation hospital, and a library.

Located on the 2nd floor of the Health Sciences Building

Health sciences professionals focus on improving human well-being. This involves helping to keep people healthy and aiding with healing processes when people become ill. Their work encompasses medical research, education, and moral and ethical considerations – which is why students choose this field.

PNWU’s Health Sciences Learning Center was designed to foster an academic community and fulfill its distinctive educational mission. It features significant spaces connected by a skylit atrium, while its design minimizes traditional boundaries between classrooms, labs, offices, and student study areas.

The facility houses classrooms, collaboration spaces, and work areas that support various health sciences programs at Pacific Northwest University (PNWU), such as its College of Osteopathic Medicine, School of Physical Therapy, and Occupational Therapy Doctoral program. MultiCare provides clinical training opportunities for PNWU students.

One unique aspect of the facility is the Silent Study Room, which provides students a space to study without distractions. This area can be found within an isolated corner of Ebling Library that has undergone minor modifications to accommodate and complement this project. Furthermore, students will have access to other services, including print kiosks, scanners, specialized software programs for anatomy models, and books and journals that assist them with their studies.

The Clinical Learning Center (CLC) is a 14,500 GSF state-of-the-art facility.

The CLC is at the core of our nursing program, giving students at all levels of study an opportunity to practice patient care skills in an environment that closely simulates clinical settings. Standardized patients and high-tech adult and infant mannequins give students ample practice in experiencing clinical judgment, communication, knowledge, and professional behavior in a risk-free environment.

Nursing Lab Instructors provide reinforcement and remediation of skills learned in class, clinical settings, and simulation. We facilitate safe, responsible, ethical, and evidence-based practice and have earned endorsement from the International Nursing Association for Clinical and Simulation Learning (INACSL) for excellence in pre-briefing facilitation and professional integrity.

The CLC provides students with a unique learning environment to apply theory to practice. Students engage in hands-on experiences with cutting-edge clinical and simulation labs such as simulation suites and skill/simulation equipment.

The CLC is led by a team of nursing faculty committed to fostering an environment of engagement and integration across the school. Each week, over 100 simulation sessions for undergraduate and graduate students occur at this center; interprofessional simulation exercises hosted here also regularly include those from Medicine, Pharmacy, Social Work, and Dentistry schools.

The CLC is a unique educational facility serving the Mayborn College of Health Sciences students.

Health sciences careers allow you to help people heal themselves and those close to them. From doctors, nurses, and physical therapists up to psychologists – you can make an impactful contribution by using your skills and knowledge for the public good. Health science offers rewarding, challenging, and fulfilling career options; perhaps this field could be just what you are searching for!

This extraordinary building serves the rapidly evolving educational, research, and clinical practice needs of three schools at once – Medical School, Nursing School, and Pharmacy School. This project breaks with traditional library/classroom boundaries by creating different teaching environments – featuring an atrium designed with group study rooms while blurring physical distinctions between library services and classroom services both physically and administratively.

To succeed, students pursuing health sciences classes need dedicated study space and opportunities to meet with fellow students in small groups. At the CLC, open and reservable study rooms, on-site security services, grab-and-go food and beverages, and a University Book Store location are all essential to success.

The CLC also hosts Linda Grunin Simulation Lab and Learning Center, an interprofessional learning and simulation center that provides state-of-the-art training to nursing, healthcare students, medical residents, and physicians in an interactive, supervised setting to improve patient care skills.

The CLC is a standardized patient clinic for teaching and evaluation.

Health Science is the study of human well-being and medical care. This field is vitally important, helping our species remain alive and healthy. Professionals in Health Science are responsible for maintaining the population’s well-being using cutting-edge technology, innovative research methodologies, and alternative methodologies.

The CLC is an impressive facility featuring numerous clinical learning simulation suites, occupational therapy performance labs, and classrooms for teaching purposes. There is also a pediatric sensory gym and state-of-the-art surgical training center with which students gain hands-on experience without risk to learning.

The 7,000-square-foot facility employs various manikins and simulators designed to cover healthcare specialties. Simulation suites at this complex include a medical-surgical simulation room, intensive care unit, operating room, labor & delivery room simulation suites, and six standardized patient exam rooms for Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs).

The CLC welcomes students of any significant program interested in healthcare to utilize its labs, classrooms, and conference spaces. Students can also take advantage of its on-site library that offers access to books and databases, grab-and-go food and drinks, and a University Book Store location. Anyone wishing to utilize its facilities must apply to Conference Services, with all applicable fees paid upfront.