For UW Bothell, UW Seattle and UW Tacoma Masters Students and UW Tacoma BSN students
The following qualifications amplify requirements found in the University of Washington Student Conduct Code. For admission, continuation, and graduation in their programs, students must abide by the following specifications for behaviors and abilities. In this document, "student" pertains to all UW Bothell, all UW Seattle and UW Tacoma masters students as well as UW Tacoma BSN students. http://www.son.washington.edu/eo/ms_qualifications.asp
Communication: Students must communicate effectively and sensitively with patients and their families as well as with other students, staff, faculty, professionals, agency personnel, community residents, and others relevant to their areas of study. Expression of ideas and feelings must be clear and appropriate. Students must demonstrate a willingness and ability to give and receive feedback.
Cognitive: Students must be able to reason, analyze, integrate, synthesize, and evaluate in the context of the nursing activities of their programs/areas of study.
Behavioral/Emotional: Students must possess the emotional health required for the full utilization of intellectual abilities, the exercise of sound judgment, and the timely completion of responsibilities in their programs/areas of study. Further, students must be able to maintain mature, sensitive, and effective relationships with patients, students, faculty, staff, other professionals, and agency personnel under all circumstances including highly stressful situations. Students must have the emotional stability to function effectively under stress and adapt to environments that may change rapidly without warning and/or in unpredictable ways as relevant to their programs or areas of study. Students must be able to demonstrate empathy for the situations and circumstances of others and appropriately communicate that empathy. Students must acknowledge that values, attitudes, beliefs, emotions, and experiences affect their perceptions and relationships with others. Students must be able and willing to examine and change behaviors when they interfere with productive individual or team relationships. Students must demonstrate effective and harmonious relationships with the diverse academic, professional, and community environments relevant to their chosen programs of study.
Professional Conduct: Students must possess the ability to reason morally and practice nursing in an ethical manner. They must be willing to learn and abide by professional standards of practice as well as regulations for professional licensure. Students must demonstrate the attributes of compassion, integrity, honesty, responsibility, and tolerance.
Motor and sensory skills: Students need to have sufficient motor function and sensory skills in order to be able to execute movements and make observations required in the domain of nursing care or nursing activity in their chosen programs/areas of study.
Reasonable Accommodation for Disabilities: Students must be able to perform all the essential functions of the program with or without accommodation. A student who discloses a disability and requests accommodation will be referred to Disabled Student Services (Seattle) or Disability Support Services (Bothell or Tacoma). The student may be asked to provide documentation of the disability for the purposes of determining appropriate accommodations. The School will provide reasonable accommodations, but is not required to make modifications that would substantially alter the nature or requirements of the program. If you have questions regarding reasonable accommodation, contact Disability Support Services in the UW Bothell Office of Special Services, UW1-181, 425.352.5307. In Seattle, phone 206-543-8924; in Tacoma, phone 253-692-4501.
Implementation of the Essential Behaviors for Admission, Continuation and Graduation at UW Bothell
All prospective students will be advised of the Essential Behaviors for Admission, Continuation, and Graduation in application packets, during program orientation, and via the School's web site. They will also be advised of campus resources and nursing program process if expectations for these essential behaviors are not met.
NURSING PROGRAM PROCESS
If and when a student does not meet expectations for essential behaviors, the following will occur:
1. Problematic behavior documented: Problematic behavior will be documented by faculty in the student's record.
2. Problematic behavior results in Warning Card and contract: If a pattern of problematic behavior or a single, very serious lapse in the essential behaviors becomes evident, the steps below should be followed so that the student is apprised of a Warning Card indicating that the student's continuation in the program is in jeopardy.
2a. Composing contract: The student's instructor and/or appropriate program advisor in consultation with the Nursing Program Director will prepare an individual student contract that must accompany the warning card identifying what needs to be demonstrated in order to meet the essential behaviors and thus remain in the program.
2b. UW Bothell Nursing Program Faculty Committee approves contract: The individual student contract is reviewed and approved by the UW Bothell Nursing Program Faculty Committee. The documentation of lapses in the essential behaviors must accompany the contract.
2c. Student apprised of warning card and given contract: The Director, instructor and/or appropriate program advisor meet with the student to present the warning card and individual student contract. After the student reads and signs the warning card (signature indicates that the student has read it), the card is placed in the student's academic file.
3. Contract monitored quarterly by Nursing Program Faculty Committee: If the contract is not upheld by the student, the student may be dismissed.
Maintaining Academic Integrity
All students are responsible for knowing and upholding the University of Washington Student Code of Conduct (WAC Chapter 478-120).
Types of Academic Misconduct
Including but not limited to these examples:
Academic dishonesty includes but is not limited to: Cheating, Fabrication, Facilitation and Plagiarism. These apply to any exam, research, course assignment, or other academic exercise that contributes, in whole or part, to the satisfaction of requirements for courses or graduation.