University of Minnesota Diversity Statement
Admissions teams want to understand how you personally came to be empathetic, reflective, resilient, and aware of systematic inequalities.
Describe how your background, experiences, and achievements will contribute to the program and the University’s goals of promoting excellence through diversity.
View the video as if the patient in the bed is a loved one, your mother, your sister, your aunt, your best friend, etc… Provide a minimum of a two-paragraph response.
In the first part of the response, describe how you feel viewing the first part of the video. The nurse comes back in with a different composure. Describe how you feel about her empathetic approach.
For the second part of the response, you are the Nurse. Describe how you feel when speaking to this patient.
