College of Nursing<\/a>. \u201cThe breadth of simulation capabilities \u2014 including medical-surgical, mental health, maternity, pediatrics and home care \u2014 provides the best education available in a setting unlike any other and offers URI nursing graduates a strong competitive advantage in their profession,\u201d she said.<\/p>\nURI\u2019s graduate nursing programs, from its master\u2019s degree offering \u2014 which U.S. News & World Report ranks in the nation\u2019s top 100 \u2014 to doctor of nurse practitioner and Ph.D. degree tracks, are entirely housed at the center. \u201cThese students come to URI seeking to excel as leaders in their fields and to be challenged at the highest levels of nursing, and the center helps us achieve that,\u201d Wolfe said.<\/p>\n
The South Street Landing project itself is a story of transformation. The result of an unprecedented collaboration among the State of Rhode Island, URI, Brown University and Rhode Island College, the center is housed in what was once an abandoned 19th<\/sup> century power plant. Restored and reimagined, the distinctive building houses the nursing simulation laboratories \u2014 which URI and Rhode Island College nursing programs share, although their curricula and missions remain distinct \u2014 faculty offices and classrooms for both programs, administrative offices for Brown University\u2019s Warren Alpert Medical School and stunning and unique public spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"URI, governor to officially dedicate Nursing Education Center Learning is about transformation, and the new Rhode Island Nursing Education Center in Providence positions URI nursing students at the forefront of transformation in the field of health care. The center, which opened in August 2017 as part of the South Street Landing redevelopment project along the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1710,"featured_media":6288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,18],"class_list":["post-6285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-uri-academic-health-collaborative","tag-uri-college-of-nursing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The center, which opened in August 2017 as part of the South Street Landing redevelopment project along the waterfront in Providence, is scheduled to be officially dedicated on Nov. 29. Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo and other dignitaries will join College of Nursing Dean Barbara Wolfe, URI students, educators and administrators to formally celebrate the opening of South Street Landing with a ribbon-cutting ceremony that will showcase the 133,000-square-foot teaching facility.<\/p>\n