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         <td align="center" colspan="2"><big>'''UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER<br />COLLEGE OF NURSING'''</big></td>
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         <td width="60%">Section 5.0 - Students</td>
         <td width="60%">Section 5.0 - Student Policies</td>
         <td width="40%">Originating Date: September, 2012</td>
         <td width="40%">Originating Date: [[Special:PermanentLink/5285|September 2012]]</td>
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         <td width="60%">Responsible Reviewing Agency:<br /><div style="margin-left:3em; line-height:1.2;">PhD Affairs Council</div></td>
         <td valign="top" width="60%">Responsible Reviewing Agency:<br /><div style="margin-left:3em; line-height:1.2;">PhD Affairs Council</div></td>
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                 <td>&nbsp;</td>
                 <td>Revised: [[Special:PermanentLink/10172|March 2014]]<br />Revised: [[Special:PermanentLink/14466|May 2018]]<br />Revised: October 2023 ([[Special:Diff/14466/{{REVISIONID}}|changes]])</td>
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     <td valign="top"><small>J:/RESOURCE MANUAL/Table of Contents College of Nursing Resource Manual</small></td>
     <td>Related Documents:<br /><div style="margin-left:3em; line-height:1.2;">[[CON Student Responsibility to Provide Information Policy|5.1.3 Student Responsibility to Provide Information Policy]]<br />Board of Regents Policies RP 3.1.2</div></td>
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===Policy:===
===Purpose===
<p style="margin-bottom:15px;">UNMC College of Nursing is in compliance with the Policy for Americans with Disabilities as stipulated by the Board of Regents in RP 3.1.2.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">Establishes technical standards criteria for application to and continuation in the PhD in Nursing program.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:15px;">All U.S. doctoral applicants to the UNMC College of Nursing PhD in Nursing Program must hold an unencumbered license to practice nursing. In addition, the following general abilities have been identified as necessary to meet the technical standards for admission and progression in the PhD in Nursing Program. The following general abilities will be evaluated throughout the program:</p>
===Scope===
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<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">This policy applies to PhD applications and students.</p>
             <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Intellect. The educational goals are focused on the recall or recognition of knowledge and the development of intellectual abilities and skills. The nursing student participating in these educational goals must have the ability to reason, problem solve, conceptualize, analyze, synthesize and evaluate.<br /><br />
===Policy===
Psychomotor. The student must possess sufficient manipulative and motor skills to carry out the usual technical skills customarily considered when describing nursing functions, but also includes purposeful, precise movements of the individual. Furthermore, precise movements are needed to perform more complex nursing skills required in certain aspects of the PhD in Nursing Program</li>
<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">UNMC College of Nursing is in compliance with the Policy for Americans with Disabilities as stipulated by the Board of Regents in RP 3.1.2.</p>
            <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Assessment. In order to independently and accurately assess a client, the student must possess the functional use of the senses of sight, smell, hearing and touch.</li>
<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">All PhD applicants to the UNMC College of Nursing PhD in Nursing Program must hold an unencumbered license to practice nursing. In addition, the following general abilities have been identified as necessary to meet the technical standards for admission and progression in the PhD in Nursing Program. The following general abilities will be evaluated throughout the program:</p>
             <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Communication. The student must possess communication skills in order to assess, plan, and deliver effective and therapeutic care to clients/families. The student must be able to communicate effectively to members of the health care team.</li>
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             <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Behavioral and social attributes. The educational goals include changes in interest, attitudes, values and the development of appreciations and adequate adjustment. The student must be able to demonstrate stability and good judgment, adapt to change, be flexible and learn to function in stressful situations. He or she should show empathy, integrity, compassion and concern for others. This program requires the student to examine differing values and to formulate more clearly his or her own personal values. The applicant to the PhD in Nursing Program must be able to weigh the rights of the individual against the rights of society for a safe and competent nurse practitioner.</li>
             <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Intellect. The educational goals are focused on the recall or recognition of knowledge and the development of intellectual abilities and skills. The nursing student participating in these educational goals must have the ability to reason, problem solve, conceptualize, analyze, synthesize and evaluate.</li>
            <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Psychomotor. The student must possess sufficient manipulative and motor skills to carry out the usual technical skills customarily considered when conducting research.</li>
             <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Communication. The student must be able to communicate effectively to members of the health care team, consumers (patients families and with committees), mentors and peers. </li>
             <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Behavioral and social attributes. The student must be able to demonstrate sufficient emotional stability and good judgment, adapt to change, be flexible and to function in stressful situations.</li>
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<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">Students with disabilities must follow the procedures for special accommodations. (See 5.1.3 Student Responsibility to Provide Information Policy)</p>


 
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<p style="margin-bottom:15px;">Students with disabilities must follow the procedures for special accommodations.</p>
 
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             <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The student will be evaluated by the Counseling and Student Development Center at UNMC, or UNMC’s designee, for official declaration of the specific accommodations required.</li>
             <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The student will be evaluated by the Counseling and Student Development Center at UNMC, or UNMC’s designee, for official declaration of the specific accommodations required.</li>
             <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The faculty may not grant accommodations to students without this official declaration.</li>
             <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The faculty may not grant accommodations to students without this official declaration.</li>
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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER
COLLEGE OF NURSING
Technical Standards for PhD in Nursing Program Subsection: 5.4.5
Section 5.0 - Student Policies Originating Date: September 2012
Responsible Reviewing Agency:
PhD Affairs Council
Revised: March 2014
Revised: May 2018
Revised: October 2023 (changes)
Related Documents:


Purpose

Establishes technical standards criteria for application to and continuation in the PhD in Nursing program.

Scope

This policy applies to PhD applications and students.

Policy

UNMC College of Nursing is in compliance with the Policy for Americans with Disabilities as stipulated by the Board of Regents in RP 3.1.2.

All PhD applicants to the UNMC College of Nursing PhD in Nursing Program must hold an unencumbered license to practice nursing. In addition, the following general abilities have been identified as necessary to meet the technical standards for admission and progression in the PhD in Nursing Program. The following general abilities will be evaluated throughout the program:

  1. Intellect. The educational goals are focused on the recall or recognition of knowledge and the development of intellectual abilities and skills. The nursing student participating in these educational goals must have the ability to reason, problem solve, conceptualize, analyze, synthesize and evaluate.
  2. Psychomotor. The student must possess sufficient manipulative and motor skills to carry out the usual technical skills customarily considered when conducting research.
  3. Communication. The student must be able to communicate effectively to members of the health care team, consumers (patients families and with committees), mentors and peers.
  4. Behavioral and social attributes. The student must be able to demonstrate sufficient emotional stability and good judgment, adapt to change, be flexible and to function in stressful situations.

Students with disabilities must follow the procedures for special accommodations. (See 5.1.3 Student Responsibility to Provide Information Policy)

  1. The student will be evaluated by the Counseling and Student Development Center at UNMC, or UNMC’s designee, for official declaration of the specific accommodations required.
  2. The faculty may not grant accommodations to students without this official declaration.
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