Nurses have higher rates of workplace injury than construction workers

Three seniors in the nursing program at the SUNY College at Brockport follow professor Jennifer Chesebro through a long nondescript room with eight occupied hospital beds along the walls. Chesebro addresses each patient by name, and handles them with the tender touch that she's developed in 21 years of nursing. Each patient has their own unique ailments for the students to practice treating, but they stare up with hard fixed plastic eyes. The patients in this room don't respond to their caregivers — they're mannequins. Here, and in another demonstration lab across the hall, students practice drawing blood, inserting IVs, and moving patients.