The Fahey Health Sciences Library, Medford campus

The library serves the information needs of the school’s faculty and students as well as the health system’s administrators, medical staff and employees. The library is accessible to students 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The library is staffed Monday through Friday, and Sunday afternoons. All entering students receive basic library instruction as part of the orientation program. The librarian also provides group and individual instruction to students throughout their enrollment including database searching and World Wide Web searching.

The library collection contains over 3,000 volumes and approximately 130 health-related periodicals, one-third of which are nursing titles. Computers are provided for searching CINAHL, the preeminent nursing database; additional computers are available for word processing, PowerPoint production and Internet access for academic research. The recent acquisition of the Joanna Briggs Institute database provides information for students and faculty to plan and deliver the highest quality and most current evidence-based nursing care.

The library is a member of a state-wide health sciences library network, the National Library of Medicine’s National Network of Libraries of Medicine and the Massachusetts Regional Library System.

Regis College Library, Weston campus

Students also have full access to the Weston campus library with approximately 130,000 volumes and over 970 current periodical subscriptions. A local area network provides access to research materials from several CD-ROM databases. Reference services include bibliographic instruction, instruction in CD-ROM searching, on-line database searching, and interlibrary loan. As a member of the WEBnet Consortium, which comprises the libraries at Babson College, Bentley College, Pine Manor College and Regis College, the Regis College community has direct computer and borrowing access to approximately 475,000 volumes and 25,000 periodical subscriptions through the use of an integrated on-line catalog available in the library.

Computer and Audio-Visual Services

The Audio-Visual Center and the Multimedia Laboratory provide a range of options to address students’ independent and self-paced learning needs. The Audio-Visual (AV) Center, accessible 24 hours a day, is equipped with video stations and an extensive video library as well as computers for the web, word processing and other production tools. The Multimedia Laboratory provides access to about 100 interactive learning programs. Many combine the authenticity of images, sound and video. Both areas are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with assistants scheduled regularly including evenings and weekends.

Students also use an internal student website which allows them access to a variety of student services on and off campus as well as the complete Student Handbook and the Financial Aid Handbook. In addition, all students use Blackboard, a web-based curriculum program, allowing communication among students and faculty and distribution of course materials and grades at home, school, or elsewhere.

Nursing Arts Laboratory

The Nursing Arts Laboratory houses multiple patient care units, realistic training mannequins and a variety of state-of-the-art medical equipment. Students are able to become proficient in nursing skills while in the safety of a laboratory environment. Twenty-four hour a day access to the laboratory allows unlimited student practice opportunities. A nursing arts lab coordinator, lab instructor and lab assistants are available at designated times to aid students in the acquisition of nursing skills.

Classroom Facilities

All classrooms are equipped with full computer and video projection capabilities.

SimMan Laboratory

A state-of-the-art SimMan Laboratory provides an interactive realistic mannequin for faculty-supervised student instruction and practice. Through sophisticated computer programming, this SimMan patient’s condition can instantly change; such changes are displayed on the cardiac monitor and blood pressure and pulses of the “patient” change as well. Videotaped practice scenarios of students working with SimMan allow students to evaluate their nursing care and responses to the patient’s clinical condition. Each practice scenario is reviewed by faculty and students together to enhance student learning.