Girl Scouts, left to right, Taylor Nash, 13, Michelle Waldstein, 13, Brianna Groh, 12, and Chloe Jackson, 13, do a basic assessment on a patient simulator at the Arizona Simulation Technology and Education Center at University Medical Center.

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Seven Girl Scout cadets from the seventh grade at Orange Grove Middle School spent last Friday afternoon on a private tour of University Medical Center.

The tour included visits to the neonatal intensive care unit, a simulation room and the inside of an operating room.

Participation in the tour was one of the many requirements for the girls to receive the Girl Scout Health Badge.

"We wanted them to get hands-on experience of technology in the health profession," said troop leader Sue Tully.

The girls' favorite part of the tour was the simulation room in the hospital's Arizona Simulations Technology and Education Center. There the girls were shown how to do a basic assessment of a patient by taking the vital signs of a computerized mannequin that simulates a human being.

"I could see they were learning," said Kate Groh, who took the tour with the troop, which includes her stepdaughter, Brianna.

As part of the tour, the girls donned hospital scrubs and were allowed to see a real operating room.

"I had never been in an operating room. It was a rare event to see the instruments they use and the process they go through," Brianna said.

"It was a huge experience for them," Groh said.