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Respond to ALL questions below within EACH personal statement section.

Personal Statement: Section 1 

1. Describe your specific healthcare experience and how it has prepared you for the nursing program.

2. Cultural humility is an essential aspect of healthcare and nursing. Cultural humility includes three principles:

a. Lifelong learning and critical self-reflection,

b. Recognize and mitigate power imbalances inherent in our healthcare system, and

c. Institutional accountability, where the institution has to model and support these

Describe a healthcare experience when you worked with a patient, family, community, or population different from yourself, and where your beliefs and values differed in some way. Describe how you applied these three principles of cultural humility, or what, if anything, you would do differently if faced with a similar situation.

Personal Statement: Section 2 

3. Please tell us about how your personal background and experiences will enable you to become a great nurse who provides care to diverse populations.

4. What does anti-racism mean to you? How do you think it would impact your role as a nursing student and your future nursing practice?

Personal Statement: Section 3 

5. A typical quarter in the ABSN program consists of ~22 credits and requires approximately 70 hours per week to succeed. You are expected to make a full-time commitment for 12 months and, during that time, you must be available early mornings, daytime, evenings, and weekends for clinical, laboratory, or classroom instructions. 

a. Why you have chosen this type of program?

b. How you have prepared yourself to meet these program requirements. What do you anticipate will be your greatest challenge during this program? What is your plan to overcome this challenge?