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Hi BallsToTheWall, You are definitely entitled to your opinion but so am I, so I'm going to share my two cents with you. As a graduate of UW's BSN program, I definitely value the emphasis that the school has placed on diversity and cultural humility, especially starting from the application process. Nurses serve a very diverse patient population, and the current nursing workforce doesn't exactly reflect that level of diversity, so I'm thankful that the UW School of Nursing has made a commitment to train and develop nurses who will practice cultural humility in their everyday work. You mention that the school doesn't care about teaching vital signs and assessing the health of the patient? Well, those are all skills that you will learn in lab and clinical and will eventually master when you're out in practice as an RN. Learning those skills is the easy part. The not so easy part of nursing that can't always be taught is the ability to be a human being and empathize with what a patient is going through, where they come from, and how this might affect the type of care that you will provide for them. Realizing that a person's culture is an important component of their health will help you become a better nurse. The school can teach you a lot of things that will prepare you to be a nurse, but the ignorance and close-mindedness that have come through your post is something that cannot be trained OUT of someone. It baffles me that you just got admitted but still have these sort of feelings about the school. I would highly encourage you to think deeply about wanting to pursue your education at a place that doesn't seem to align with what you are looking for because the program will continue to teach you about cultural humility while also teaching you the very skills that you just pointed out. There are many hopeful applicants that would love to have a spot in UW's program so don't take the opportunity away from someone who will be actually be grateful for the chance to learn in this environment. I hope I have given you plenty to think about. P.S. I went straight into the ICU as a new grad and so did many of my classmates, so actually you can have cultural humility AND also be a "bad ass ICU nurse".

Hi Tarabara! I'm currently in the process of doing the application for the VALOR program in Washington State. Can you give me some tips of what I should include in my cover letter? It asks about strengths that I could bring to the program, but I was just wondering if there were any specifics that I should add? Thanks!

Raeanne, do you have any tips for the application process?