Photo: #Nursing students at Ridgewater College's nursing program use mannequins along with fake blood, vomit and other bodily fluids to learn how to take care of patients and assess their condition.

Using fake blood clots to train real nurses

by Nikki Tundel, Minnesota Public Radio

Reporter Nikki Tundel visits a Minnesota nursing program where pistachio pudding indicates infection and boiled okra is used to represent post-op drainage. And the students are better clinicians because of it.

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