State Senators Faber and Jones Visit College of Nursing

On Monday, April 29, Ohio State Senate President Keith Faber (District 12) and Senator Shannon Jones (District 7) visited the Univerity of Cincinnati’s College of Nursing to learn more about the college’s online learning programs and telehealth innovations.  

At Procter Hall, in the college’s Intraprofessional Innovation Collaboratory, Fabor and Jones took part in an online course demonstration through iPad technology and then viewed an emergency trauma simulation put on by college of nursing students.    

They also had the opportunity to test drive "Flo-Bot”—one of two telehelath robots in the college.

The UC College of Nursing, one of four colleges in UC’s Academic Health Center, currently enrolls over 2,700 students in nursing programs that include RN to BSN, BSN, MSN, DNP and PhD, as well as a Post-Graduate Certificate in Nursing Education and Post-MSN Certificates.

Learn more about the college at:

www.nursing.uc.edu

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