An expansion project at Lakeshore Technical College has started.
President Paul Carlsen said while on WOMT’s Be My Guest program that ground has been broken for a new healthcare excellence center and will modernize and expand the college’s clinical skills lab.
“We educate skilled professionals from certified nurse assistants (CNA’s) to registered nurses (RN’s),” he explained. “We completed, the project will double our capacity to teach and graduate healthcare workers.”
The college got the money for the project last year from a $1 million donation from Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin and Franciscan Sisters Charities.
Other donations were also made by other foundations because of the need for more healthcare workers.
Carlsen says there is a shortage of nurses throughout the country, and the college is continuing to do its part to graduate more nursing students while making sure they provide the care that patients expect.
He noted that “Every nursing student sits for a license exam called the NCLEX that tests your technical competencies that you care for as a patient like how to cut you open safely and also getting a shot.”
The expansion project is expected to be done by June.
