August 04, 2003

Bowling Green, Ky. - The Bowling Green Community College of Western Kentucky University will have an open house Thursday (Aug. 7) for SimMan, a computerized patient simulator that will be used in the college's Associate Degree of Nursing program.

The open house is scheduled for 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the WKU South Campus, room 145.

Representatives from the community college and Laerdal, the company that produces SimMan, will be on hand to demonstrate the simulator and answer questions. BGCC becomes one of three schools in Kentucky to utilize the SimMan technology.

For information, contact Nancy English, nursing instructor, at (270) 780-2546 or Martha Houchin, director of the Associate Degree of Nursing program, at (270) 780-2502.

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