♪ And speaking of health care, students at Northern Kentucky University are getting hands-on medical practice without the risk of impacting patients.

We visited Nku Center for simulation education, which also gives local high schoolers a glimpse into the health care world.

>> And so our students are you first started right off the bat.

They get simulation their very first semester and they get it throughout the whole program.

We see things that happened in the hospital.

We face are simulations on that foreigners team.

>> The program has a nursing skills lab where they learn how to do all of the nursing skills, such as vital signs, putting an IV.

We have our radiology lab where students learn how to position patients for X-rays.

How did you see teens?

We have our labs for cardio vascular perfusion.

So those are the students who in the or and I'm going to specifically.

>> What's on hasn't on bypass mannequins.

Believe they swapped.

They cry.

>> Different fluids that can do any heart sounds long.

Sounds they have all pulses so we can mimic any disease process as well as being able to create any situation SOT of the students.

A lot of times by the mannequin doesn't seem real.

The situation is very real hate to say the word or use the word.

Make a mistake.

But it's far better to make that mistake on a man again and do it on a real patient.

>> So if the students given medication and it's the wrong dose or the wrong medication, then the U.S. would respond just as a patient to a hospital.

But obviously, if they're in a a clinical environment, such as a hospital.

We can't have them practice independent at the bedside.

But in a simulation, we can.

We're doing labor and delivery.

I can't promise that someone's going to deliver either.

There.

Here in simulation.

We have control over that environment can have our manna can deliver a baby every half hour.

We need to so we can guarantee that they'll get those experiences.

One thing that we do here in the college is we give tours are high school students in the area.

It's not just to tour its hands on so they get to see a lot of different things.

They go through all of the labs and the college.

>> And get to see what they do.

And so the class that's here today is our intro to bio med students.

And so they are getting an overall view of different health care careers.

I'm looking to go into Pre Med because that would be like the next step and following the journey because I want to be in there.

A surgeon.

>> I think that the lab is actually really cool because it shows like a bunch of different ways to help care for patients but shot.

And it is.

>> I think it's really cool that there's a whole roomful of it.

I've had students that have come that I've had in class that told me they were they came through as a high schooler to and that's what got them interested in our program.

>> You know, everyone's be a doctor or nurse.

And there so many different things you can do even with in those fields.

But this is allowing them to see about exercise science, radiology lab respiratory.

>> And all the different things because it's not a one size fits all healthcare Kerr.

Yes, doctors and nurses are critically important to the health care team.

>> However, it is a healthcare team made up of many different specialties and all of the specialties are very much needed for the care of the patient.

The bsn program here at NKU has 100% pass rate on the and cooks exam their national exam.

They take for licensing hospitals.

>> And places where students are working are noticing that our students are very well prepared when they get out into the field or even in the clinical setting.

There is still a gigantic need for health care workers in the area.

And so >> more students we can expose to health care and health professions.

I think that hopefully the better off we are in the future with our health care workforce.

>> The simulation center opened in 2018 and is split between 2 floors.

The outpatient center mimics a doctor's office and