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ASHLEY APPLE: Hey, there.

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I'm Ashley Apple.

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I'm an Assistant Professor
of Nursing here at UVA.

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I'm a Family Nurse
Practitioner and I'm

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the commissioner on government
relations for the Virginia

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Nurses Association.

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So what I love about
my role here at UVA

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is all of the aha moments,
that moment where learning

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happens, where new
knowledge just clicks,

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where it makes sense.

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I came here as a student
myself before I was faculty.

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I was an RN to BSN student and
I was in my health policy class

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when I had probably my
most profound aha moment.

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And at that moment, I realized
that social justice is actually

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within the scope of
my nursing practice.

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And in fact, I was called by the
ethical tenets of our profession

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to advocate for ethical and
equitable public policies

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to help eliminate health
disparities, to stand up

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for vulnerable populations.

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And that moment profoundly
shaped the person

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that I am today, the
nurse that I am today.

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And to experience
that here as a student

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and then to get to
turn around as faculty

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and see the eyes of students
as they have those aha moments

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is just incredibly
rewarding to see it

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when it clicks, to see
it when it makes sense.

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And I can't wait to
see all of the impact

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that it's going to have to our
future nursing professions,

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to see all the good
that students are going

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to do in the world as they learn
these new and exciting things.

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So why should you come
to the School of Nursing?

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Because you can come
exactly as you are.

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No matter what you're interested
in, we have people here for you.

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We're not a nurse factory.

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We don't send students
down an assembly line

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and try to pour them
all into the same mold.

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Instead, we work to
build an environment

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and give students the
tools and the care they

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need to grow into the
nurse that they want to be.

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Like, are you interested in
health policy and advocacy

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and activism?

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Come on, let's speak
truth to power.

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Are you interested in
global public health

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or LGBTQIA inclusive
hospice and palliative care?

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Are you interested
in knowing more

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about supporting mental
health and well-being

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among our veterans or supporting
the emotional and spiritual

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needs of our patients?

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Come here, we have people
here to support you in that.

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We built an ecosystem of
clinicians and scholars

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and researchers
and activists that

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want to help you reach
that goal and really dig

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into what it is that moves you.

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And if you don't know
what moves you, that's OK,

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we have people that can
help with that, too.

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If I had to describe UVA School
of Nursing in just one word,

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well, anyone who knows
me knows that that's

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going to be difficult for me
because I have a lot of words.

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But I would say
one word is home.

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You know, I was a
student here myself.

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I arrived here after
almost a decade in practice

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as an ER nurse, and I came
to the RN to BSN program

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and I was terrified.

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I'd never experienced
university life before.

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And from the moment I stepped
on grounds through this moment

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right now as faculty
many years later,

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I felt loved and
supported and respected.

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And so my advice to
prospective students

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would be bring your authentic
self, whoever you are,

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bring your lived experience,
bring your inquisitive mind,

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and come join our family.

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Come home to UVA.

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