LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Giving nurses real-world experience is important, but it can be challenging. One local hospital group recently unveiled a new state-of-the-art simulation and training center — the first of its kind in the valley.

Meet Curt Labb. He talks, coughs, and sneezes — but he isn't human. He's a high-fidelity patient simulator — one of several mannequins at Sunrise Health System hospitals helping prepare new nurses for the real world.

The mannequins are designed to act like real patients. Nurses can practice everything from checking pulses to drawing blood, and even delivering a baby. • (KLAS) • (KLAS) • (KLAS) • (KLAS) • (KLAS) • (KLAS) • (KLAS) • (KLAS) • (KLAS) • (KLAS)

"From childbirth to a heart attack, cardiac arrest, strokes, seizures, we can do it a

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