Student Handbook

GUIDELINES FOR SUITABILITY AND CAPACITY TO ENTER

THE PROFESSION OF NURSING

The following expectations are used a guidelines for assessing suitability and capacity to enter the Profession of Nursing.

Students applying to and continuing in the Nursing Program at SUNY College at Brockport are expected to:

Demonstrate honesty, integrity and ethical principles.

Relate to people with warmth and empathy, communicating feelings appropriately.

Have an accepting attitude toward their total selves, including responsibility for meeting physical and emotional needs.

Be open to change in themselves and others.

Recognize the essential worth and dignity of all human beings.

Appreciate the value of human diversity.

Develop self-confidence and initiative in working with people.

Identify personal strengths, limitations, and motivations, especially as related to a decision to work with people.

Express thoughts with clarity in both written and verbal form.

Serve, in an appropriate manner, all persons in need of assistance regardless of unique characteristics—for example, those related to race, religion (or lack of religion), gender, disability, political affiliation, sexual orientation, and value system.

Refrain from imposing their own personal, religious, sexual, and political preferences on clients.

If a faculty member identifies inappropriate behavior on the part of a student in the classroom, nursing resource center or the clinical area a “counseling memo” describing the behavior will be placed in his/her record.

Source: Adapted from Guidelines for Suitability and Capacity to Enter the Profession of Social Work, p. 42 with Permission of Social Work Department, SUNY College at Brockport.

Reviewed 5/04

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