The development of the SRR was successful due to the efforts of the
nursirig faculty, interdepartmental collaboration, the administration
who helped fund and provide the space for the room, the director of
Health Services, and the nursing students who embraced the notion
and worked toward the success of the project. Following the use
of the SRR, students were asked to complete a qualitative survey
to indicate what could be done to improve the services in the SRR.
Students commented that the room could be
darker, have aromatherapy, and "running water
on rocks [that] might complete the sense of
the room." Another suggestion was for "an
individual space for each person;" presently
the room accommodates two persons. The
director of Health Services observed that
students from the university used the room
according to their needs and that the registered
nursing students utilized it more readily than
the undergraduate generic nursing students.
Craduate students utilized the room more
readily than undergraduates.