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CATHERINE DENTON: I
had hoped that having

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community health this semester,
we would incorporate something

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with COVID.

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As soon as Dr. Mitchell and
Cat started talking about it,

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I was super excited
because I think

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that it is an opportunity
to tangibly change

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what has been happening,
and it's something

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that I think we've
struggled with-- feeling

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very stuck for the past year.

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It's frontlines right
there in the middle of what

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is the most important thing
right now in community health,

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so I think that it'll
be awesome to get

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that firsthand experience.

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Like, why not go out
and do it if we can.

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That seems even better.

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EMMA MITCHELL: Historically,
nursing students

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have been involved in
mass-vaccination events,

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but also, as a workforce
for health systems.

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And there's been a lot
of concerted effort

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on the part of leadership
in the School of Nursing

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here, as well as in
the health system,

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to ensure that the students
really have a learning role

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and that their role really
is about public health

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in alignment with our
course objectives.

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By giving them that
opportunity, we're

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really able to not only have
them learn about something

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tangible that can be done right
now, but also, preparing them

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for whatever the next
pandemic is going to be.

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CATHERINE ELMORE:
The students are

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so eager to participate in
the COVID-vaccine clinic.

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Everyone was given a choice,
so they could have opted out,

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and all of my students said yes.

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They wanted to participate.

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So I think that's
really exciting,

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and we want them to have
this experience too.

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It's a really historic
moment in our country,

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and we think that they
should participate

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just like other
health-care providers are

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getting to participate.

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EMMA MITCHELL: They do all of
the pre-vaccination training

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that other UVA
volunteers are doing,

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and then they'll be part of
the vaccination effort March

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into April.

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So students, along with
their clinical instructors,

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will be participating in our
community-based vaccination

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clinic, and under supervision
of their clinical instructor,

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are going to learn about
the different roles that

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are necessary to make
those clinics run.

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I think it's important
that we've incorporated it

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into our course,
because that way,

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students are able to draw
those connections between not

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just being a skill, not
just being about putting

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a shot in an arm, which is
an important part of it,

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but it also allows them
to be able to incorporate

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the pre-vaccination teaching,
post-vaccination teaching.

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How is it that we help convey
evidence-based information

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to the public?

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CATHERINE DENTON:
I was emotional

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when I got my COVID shot because
even though the pandemic's far

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from over, I think I was
just excited to see something

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tangible.

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And so in my eyes,
being the person

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to give that to
someone else will

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be emotional for me, as
well as probably for them,

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to see something tangible
come out of this, even

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if it's a tiny little stick.

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