CON Technical Standards for Graduate Program: Difference between revisions

<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 [http://www.nebraska.edu/docs/board/RegentPolicies.pdf RP 3.1.2.]</p>

<p style="margin-bottom:15px;max-width:70em !important;">All applicants to the UNMC College of Nursing Professional Graduate 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 Professional Graduate Nursing Program. The following general abilities will be evaluated throughout the program:</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.</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 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 Professional Graduate Nursing Program. Since the Professional Graduate Nursing Program emphasizes clinical nursing specialties, complex nursing skills are an integral part of the program.</li>