Technical Standards for Admission and Progression
The Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree requires the technical standards as outlined below:
Behavioral and Emotional/Social Standards
- Utilize appropriate and competent judgment in clinical decision-making.
- Demonstrate behavior appropriate to their specific situations.
- Cope with stress in healthy ways within their support systems.
- Establish responsive, professional, and effective relationships with patients under stressful conditions.
- Respect differences in ethnicity, social and economic positions, cultural practices, religious and political preferences, gender and sexuality, and physical and cognitive abilities.
Interpersonal Communication Standards
- Maintain healthy and mature relationships with patients, other students, faculty, staff, and professionals.
- Communicate effectively through speaking and writing, using appropriate technologies as necessary.
- Convey and exchange information clearly and efficiently (e.g., taking patient health history, explaining treatment to patients, communicating between healthcare professionals).
- Receive critique and feedback respectfully and integrate it appropriately into their practice.
Observation Standards
- Use visual, auditory, and olfactory senses in combination to perform duties (e.g., physical exams, noting patient distress).
- Perform physical inspections using instruments (e.g., palpation, auscultation, percussion).
Motor/Physical Standards
- Navigate clinical settings and environments.
- Provide care in physically strenuous situations (e.g., aiding in operating rooms, assisting in labor and delivery, moving patients).
- Achieve competence in gross and fine-motor abilities (e.g., placing catheters, drawing blood).