Pilsen’s Instituto del Progreso Latino Brings New Training Facilities To Nursing Students

PILSEN – A longstanding Pilsen educational institute inaugurated new state-of-the-art nursing training facilities that will serve students in the process of obtaining nursing degrees. Instituto del Progreso Latino opened new training facilities within Instituto College, the organization s nursing program. Students will now have access to a high-fidelity simulation lab, hands-on practice stations, furniture and electronic health record systems similar to those used in hospitals. The facilities were built with the support of a more than $3 million donation by the McCormick Foundation. Within the simulation lab, students will be able to prepare for the best- and worst-case scenarios when attending to strokes, childbirth, postpartum care and other medical conditions by using high-technology mannequins that recreate the clinical symptoms. Flor Mejia, a student of the college s associate degree in nursing and mother of four kids, is looking forward to her classes in the simulat