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MALINDA WHITLOW: Hi.

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My name is Malinda Whitlow.

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And I am an Associate
Professor here

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at the UVA School of Nursing.

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And I am the current RN
to BSN program director.

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The students.

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Hands down, I love, love,
love working and educating,

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and teaching students what I've
learned over the past 20 years

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in nursing.

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And I'm motivated when I
see that transformation

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within the students in
the classroom from day

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one up until graduation.

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And also working with
the faculty and staff.

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I have excellent faculty members
that work very closely with RN

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to BSN students.

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And we collaborate on so
many different levels.

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So a lot of questions
come up, of why go back to

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school to get your BSN.

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And I can speak to that myself,
because I am an alum of the RN

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to BSN program here at UVA.

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And when I originally was
approached to go back to school

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to get my bachelor's
degree, after working

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on general medicine inpatient
for over four years,

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I didn't think that it
would benefit me to go

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back and further my education.

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But then after that first
semester of the program,

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when you learn so
much about leadership,

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I was amazed at
how much I thought

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I knew of nursing,
that I was impressed

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that I was able to care
for the patients the way

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that I did without
knowing the new knowledge

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that I was gaining.

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Within that first semester, I
could see the transformation

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in myself, with building
my research and leadership

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skills that I thought that I
did not need at the bedside.

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And I could also start
questioning and being

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very curious of how to
better care for my patients,

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and improve the outcomes.

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Transformational.

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I feel like, in
myself, and what I

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see from students, from
faculty, from staff, and beyond,

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through the alumni
network that we have.

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I can see the
transformation in everyone

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who has had some sort of
encounter with the university.

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