Na-ha-shnee Health Sciences Institute

Na-ha-shnee is an 11-day extravaganza where students learn everything from pharmacy compounding to basic dental health care on the WSU campus, while staying in dorms at Gonzaga University.

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Thu., June 21, 2018

Roland Weaskus, left, and Ryan Hill, right, use stethoscopes to listen to the chest of a medical mannequin with the help of nursing students Terrin Utter, center left, and Sarah Burke, center right, in the nursing simulation lab at the Washington State University Nursing School in Spokane, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Weaskus and Hill are Native American youth with an interest in medical professions who were in the WSU nursing simulation lab to get a taste of possible professions.

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Roland Weaskus, left, and Ryan Hill, right, prepare to take the blood sugar of a medical mannequin in the nursing simulation lab at the Washington State University Nursing School in Spokane, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Weaskus and Hill, both 17, are Native American youth with an interest in medical professions who were in the WSU nursing simulation lab to get a taste of possible professions.

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From left, Ryan Hill, Chase Baird, Reagan Neumann, Roland Weaskus and Summer Upshaw look for vital signs on a high-tech medical mannequin with the help of nursing students, not shown, in the nursing simulation lab at the Washington State University Nursing School in Spokane, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. The group of Native American youth, with an interest in medical professions, were in the WSU nursing simulation lab to get a taste of possible future professions.

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Senior nursing student, left, Terrin Utter shows Roland Weaskus, right, how to use a respiratory therapy device on a medical mannequin in the nursing simulation lab at the Washington State University Nursing School in Spokane, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Weaskus, 17, is a Native American youth with an interest in medical professions.

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Ryan Hill waits for instructions while standing over a medical mannequin in the nursing simulation lab at the Washington State University Nursing School in Spokane, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Hill was part of a group of Native American youth with an interest in medical professions who were in the WSU nursing simulation lab to get a taste of possible medical professions.

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