The college of nursing is blessed with an exclusive building with modern and spacious infrastructure and situated in a green land away from the hustle and bustle of city. Located in a breezy and serene atmosphere, the ambience itself is, conducive to academic pursuits for learning of the people who land here.
There are spacious lecture halls, well-equipped laboratories, library, computer lab with internet facilities, auditorium, hostels with dining, facilities for indoor, outdoor games, playground and transportation facilities for the students and staff.
Lecture Hall
All the lecture halls are spacious, well ventilated, equipped with green board, white board and ceiling mounted LCD projector, OHP, comfortable seating with the facility of mike and speakers for the effective teaching and learning.
Laboratories
The following laboratories are fully equipped & modernized with state-of-the art facilities:
Nursing Foundation Lab:
Nursing foundation lab is spacious, furnished adequately with sophisticated equipments, articles and beds with superior manikins to develop hands on skills using simulators and subsequently to provide the best nursing care to the patients and family in hospital and community set up.
Maternity Nursing Lab:
Maternity Nursing Lab is completely furnished with necessary simulators, charts, models, specimens to learn and practice antenatal, postnatal and newborn assessment, conduction of normal delivery, assisted deliveries, suturing and caesarean section to mould and become best midwives to set up own nurse run clinic at the completion of degree and after getting licence to practice.
Child Health Nursing Lab:
Child Health Nursing Lab / Paediatric Lab is completely furnished with necessary simulators, charts, models, specimens and play materials to learn and practice paediatric assessment and all the procedures related to children. Single visit through the lab be able to enlighten all the Nursing care skills essential for the care of the new born, infants and children.
Community Health Nursing Lab:
We prepare nurses in community health nursing lab using charts, models and community health bags to cater education to individual, family and community as a whole, focusing on mass awareness in prevention of disease and promotion of health.
Nutrition Lab:
Our nutrition lab is roomy, well ventilated and furnished with washing facilities, gas stove and LPG connection, storage, cooking and dinning place, cooking utensils, and refrigerator, Charts, models, to learn dietetics, assessment of nutritional needs of patient and family members under supervision of faculty.
Well equipped Pre -clinical Lab facilities:
[Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Microbiology lab]
Well equipped with charts, models, specimens, skeleton and loose bones for teaching and effective learning to understand the structure and function of human system.
AV Aids Room:
AV Aids room is roomy with adequate teaching learning aids to enrich the teaching, learning experience of students. This includes overhead projector, slide projector, LCD, TV and video, charts, models, specimens, Public addressing system, CD player and digital camera.
All the labs are provided with adequate space, necessary equipments, article, manikins, for an effective teaching and learning as per INC norms for the neophyte to gain knowledge and skills before embark in a real life experience and will be a non- threatening, environment which increases the confidence of students and ultimately ensures patient safety.
Library
VNC library is spacious, well ventilated with adequate seating capacity. It has a collection of around 1000 Books, 345 Titles, 4 National Including 6 TamilNadu Nurses and Midwives Council Journals and 3 International Journals. We have access to online e- journal to update the current trends in nursing education, research and technology.
Computer Lab
The computer lab is spacious with internet facilities. The lab is fully air-conditioned, and run by competent and qualified faculty.
Hospital
Our college is blessed with 430 bedded parent hospital, Vels Medical College and Hospital. Students can gain rich clinical experience in the ward by bedside rounds, demonstration, case presentation, drug study, nursing rounds, clinical teaching, OSCE, etc. Each ward is equipped with demonstration and library, which will be useful for their learning. Students will be assigned for patients, and allowed to provide nursing care within their permissible limits and skill sets learnt.
Hostel
The College has its own separate hostel for boys and girls within the campus and provision for separate dining for them. Spacious shared living room, reading room, recreational room, visitor’s room and sick room is established and provided with adequate electricity, water and washing facilities. Safety ensured with full time security and warden.
Sports & Games
Our management has set apart a huge playground within the campus for the students to have adequate participation in sports and games.
Transportation
The Institution has its own buses approved exclusively for Vel Nursing College and connecting the campus with different points of Chennai city and suburbs.