FINANCIAL AID: ALL SHOULD APPLY

From left: Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations,
Larry Duffy; Vice President for Business Affairs, Bruce Wiese;
Western Oklahoma State College President, Randy Cumby;
Western nursing student and scholarship recipient Rachelle Pool;
Dean of Information Services and Chief of Technology, Kent
Brooks; and Nursing Department Coordinator, Chrystal Overton.

 

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Western Oklahoma State College recently celebrated a significant expansion in its nursing program with an open house at the Duncan Regional Center Learning Center.

There, nursing students gave tours and demonstrations in their new classrooms. The DRH Learning Center features interactive classrooms and state-of-the-art equipment, including artificial patients capable of exhibiting a pulse, respiration and other vital signs for students to practice monitoring skills.

The interactive television (ITV) classrooms in Duncan serve 22 freshmen and 24 sophomores enrolled in Western’s associate degree, registered nursing, (RN) program. In addition, students from the University of Oklahoma work on bachelor degrees in nursing at the DRH Learning Center.

Later that evening, the celebration continued at the Simmons Center. The Night ‘N Gala event was a recognition, award, and fundraising dinner where various awards were presented to longtime nurses in the Duncan community.

Additionally, Western student Rachelle Pool was awarded the Jack Cohen Memorial Scholarship.