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GINA DEGENNARO: Hello, I'm Gina DeGennaro.
I'm a professor of nursing here at the University of Virginia
School of Nursing.
I have been with the school for a long time.
I teach across all the programs.
Nursing is a fabulous career, because you
can do so much in nursing.
You can be a nurse in an outpatient setting.
You can go visit people in their homes.
Skilled nurses work in hospitals.
They work in critical care areas.
They go on to become nurse practitioners,
advanced practice nurses, clinical nurse specialists.
They go on to advance and get their doctorate
in nursing practice, and they go on
to be researchers and get a doctor of philosophy degree.
So there are so many different options.
You can always change who you are.
If you are moving to another place,
there's always going to be an opportunity to be a nurse.
So nursing is a fabulous career.
And to be able to be a nurse and to come out
of the University of Virginia School of Nursing
is really a wonderful opportunity.
So I invite all of you to consider
that wonderful opportunity to join us here
at the School of Nursing.
The school of nursing, the University
of Virginia School of Nursing, to me
is inspirational in one word.
We have an opportunity here to develop relationships
with each other, to be in relationship with each other.
We are a small school.
In terms of all of us as advisors and faculty know
our students very well, care about our students very well,
and really work hard to help advance our students
and help them get to the next level.
We love our students.
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