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DR. SHELLY SMITH: I'm
Dr. Shelley Smith.

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And I'm a Professor here
at UVA School of Nursing.

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And I also currently serve
as the Interim Associate

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Dean for Academic
Programs, as well as

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the Program Director for our
Master's Level APRN programs.

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So I'm a double who.

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And I have always been
super excited to say

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that I chose nursing.

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When I first came to UVA as
a traditional undergraduate

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student, I came in as
a non-nursing major.

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And I had the opportunity to
volunteer at the hospital,

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and watch a really
excellent nurse.

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And I thought, well,
that's what I want to do.

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And so then I was able to
transfer into the nursing

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program.

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I think that being
a nurse allows you

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to partner with patients,
to achieve their own health

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outcomes.

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And I can't think of any
better career than that,

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being able to help bring
about positive change in a way

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that a person wants
to experience it.

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And I think that's how we
model our education here.

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We are rooted in nursing,
and nursing science,

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and all that means.

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So while we're faculty
members, many of us are nurses.

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And we're trained in that way.

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We understand the importance
between patient-centered care.

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And I think that
really transfers

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into student-centered learning.

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My why for teaching
is pretty easy.

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I really like making
engaging learning assignments

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for our students so
that they don't just

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live in the classroom, but
extend into the real world.

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And so that may be
thinking about things

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of using real-world data sets,
or producing materials that

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go out to educate the public.

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So that our students don't
just do an assignment for me,

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but an assignment that helps
really our entire community.

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And my why for the
administrative role

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that I have here is, why not?

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It's a really great
opportunity to lead

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our faculty and our
staff, to make sure

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that we align with
national standards,

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and fulfill the UVA
mission at the same time.

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It's a real privilege
to be able to make sure

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that we are training the
next workforce of nurses

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and advanced practice nurses to
meet the complex needs that they

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will face when they graduate.

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And so that's my why
for the leadership role,

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is being able to
help think creatively

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about our academic
programs while still

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executing UVA's mission.

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If I had to think of
one reason, one word

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to choose UVA School of
Nursing, s would be excellence.

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We have excellent
faculty, excellent staff,

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excellent students.

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And so when you
come to a place that

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embraces a culture
of excellence,

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you, too, will be excellent.

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There are so many
opportunities here,

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between our on-grounds
experience, but also

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our distance opportunities.

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We really try to meet
students where they are.

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And I think that
that's excellent.

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