OMAHA, NEB (KMTV) - The University of Nebraska Medical Center is working with the state to help students interested in medicine learn more about what they do. <\/p>\n
Students took a tour of the biocontainment center at UNMC on Thursday. <\/p>\n
The high school students say they have an interest in becoming a nurse and wanted to participate to learn more about the field they may pursue. <\/p>\n
They got a walkthrough of the biocontainment unit to see what it takes to bring a person infected with a highly infectious disease to UNMC to be treated. <\/p>\n
They also learned how these negative pressure rooms are disinfected after a patient leaves and what doctors must do to protect themselves but still ensure the best treatment. <\/p>\n
Many students called the process eye opening. <\/p>\n
\"Just seeing where the Ebola patients were at, how everything works, just the different rooms, the different steps and processes to get in that unit.\" <\/p>\n
Nurses used the 2014 Ebola outbreak as an example of how the hospital treated patients with a highly infectious disease in the past <\/p>\n
UNMC staff say its important to familiarize the youth with careers that help save people's lives. <\/p>\n
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