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AAS Academic Standards and Progression
Purpose:
To outline for the student, academic standards to be met for progression in the associate degree nursing programs.
Standards for Progression:
The following academic standards are required for student progression in the associate degree nursing programs:
The student will:
- Complete each required course in the curriculum with a minimum grade of "C."
- Achieve a "C" or higher grade in nursing and general education/support courses which are required at each semester level prior to progressing to subsequent nursing courses.
- Achieve a satisfactory in clinical for nursing courses with a clinical component.
- Maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 on all work at the University.
- Cease to attend clinical immediately upon receiving two grades of "U" at any time during a clinical rotation.
- Repeat both theory and clinical components of a nursing course in which less than a "C" grade is achieved; or when the clinical component is evaluated as unsatisfactory.
- Repeat required general education/support courses in which less than a "C" grade is achieved prior to progressing to the next nursing course.
- If a course repeat is required, the student must submit a written request at the time of course failure to the coordinator of the AAS program stating the desire to repeat the course. If a written statement is not received it will be considered an unofficial withdrawal from the program.
- NURA 214 and NURA 215 are required to be taken consecutively during the final semester of the program to meet KBN requirements for the 120-hour direct patient care experience during the last semester of the program. In the event that a student is unsuccessful in NURA 214, NURA 215 must be repeated regardless of previous successful grade earned to fulfill 201 KAR 20:320. A student who is unsuccessful in NURA 214 and NURA 215 will be dismissed from the program.
- For consideration for reinstatement in the nursing program the student may be required to complete an interview with the Admissions and Progression Committee.
- Be reinstated in the nursing program providing:
- Space is available in the nursing class.
- Recommendation for reinstatement was made by the Admission and Progression Committee.
- Submission of written request for reinstatement was made.
- Required general education/support courses were successfully completed.
- Course failures have not exceeded the limits as stated below. (See #16)
- Complete the nursing program within six semesters after initial entry into the program.
- Transfer students who enter the program in the second semester of required courses must complete the program within five semesters.
- Maintain current American Heart Association (AHA) cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) certification for Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers.
- Present evidence of current liability insurance coverage payment before progressing into a clinical nursing course that requires learning activities within a health care facility.
- Be dismissed from the nursing program for any of the following situations after admission to the nursing program:
- Achievement of less than a "C" grade twice in the same course.
- Achievement of less than a "C" in any two required courses in the curricular sequence.
- Inability to complete the nursing program within six semesters after beginning the program.
- Inability for transfer students who have entered the program at the second semester to complete within five semesters.
- Inability to transfer theory into practice.
- Consistent lack of understanding of his/her limitations.
- Inability to anticipate the consequences of action or lack of action.
- Consistent failure to maintain communication with faculty and staff about client care.
- Dishonesty about client care.
- Commitment of a civil/criminal act in the educational area.
- Breach of patient confidentiality.
- Impaired behavior.
- Unprofessional behavior or acts of incivility that place a client or colleague in physical or emotional jeopardy. Examples of incivility include but are not limited:
- Using the silent treatment
- Spreading rumors
- Badgering or back-stabbing
- Rude or obnoxious behavior
- Sabotaging a project
- Damaging someone's reputation using humiliation, put-downs, and intimidation
- Failing to support a peer in collaborative relationships
- Setting someone up for failure
- Undermining of work
- Verbal abuse
- Public reprimands
- Sarcasm
- Destroying confidence
- Losing one's temper or yelling at someone
- Continual criticism
- Encouraging others to turn against a peer
- Failure of acceptance to a clinical site based on unprofessional behavior.