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Prospective Nursing Students
Students planning to apply to the nursing school must first be admitted to the university and meet the requirements for the College of Education and Health Professions. Admission to the program is limited and requires a separate application, due between Oct. 15 and Dec. 1 for fall admission and April 15 and June 1 for spring admission. The professional program of study begins in the fall or spring semester following the sophomore year and usually takes two years to complete.
Nursing requires strong emotional, intellectual and physical capabilities. Students who are admitted to the program are expected to possess the following abilities and skills:
- Critical thinking, problem solving, and the ability to generate hypotheses
- Strong psychomotor skills and a capacity to reason, analyze, synthesize, and work independently of others
- Exceptional communication skills with patients and staff
- Exemplary social skills, a quick-thinking and empathetic nature and the ability to maintain calm during emergency situations
- Strong academic skills, including a minimum GPA of 2.75, CPR certification, health and liability insurance, a completed Hepatitis B vaccine series, a negative tuberculin skin test, diphtheria-tetanus (DT) and reliable transportation.
Graduates are prepared to provide culturally sensitive care to clients through the roles of caregiver, teacher, and manager in a variety of settings. The graduate:
- Uses critical thinking in making clinical judgments to deliver holistic nursing care.
- Uses theory and research-based knowledge to improve delivery of nursing care to meet health care needs of individuals, families, and communities.
- Develops, implements, and evaluates health-related education based on assessed needs.
- Applies information and health care technologies to assess, monitor, and support clients, families, and communities.
- Designs, manages, and coordinates health care for individuals, families, and communities.
- Uses ethical principles in nursing practice, conduct, and relationships with clients.
- Identifies with the values of the profession and incorporates them into practice.
Nursing offers graduates a wide variety of professional choices. University of Arkansas graduates are prepared for hospital, school, and community settings where they manage acute and chronic patient care and promote health and wellness. Nursing professionals specialize in geriatrics, dialysis, oncology, emergency, hospice, and many other areas of health care.
By the time nursing students graduate, many have received three or four job offers, and 100 percent of Eleanor Mann School of Nursing graduates have found meaningful employment a year after graduation.
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