Registered Nursing: professional practice doctorate records.

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Official classification: Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse.

A program that generally prepares individuals in the knowledge, techniques and procedures for promoting health, providing care for sick, disabled, infirmed, or other individuals or groups. Includes instruction in the administration of medication and treatments, assisting a physician during treatments and examinations, Referring patients to physicians and other health care specialists, and planning education for health maintenance.

Check the exact nursing qualification, entry route and the relevant professional authority’s current recognition and licensing requirements. A CIP award record does not establish eligibility for nursing practice.

This selection is the source professional practice doctorate category, award level 18. It stays separate from research doctorates and other doctorate awards. Verify the exact qualification, current applicant route and recognition in the intended jurisdiction; the award category does not establish eligibility for professional practice.

Source: connected NCES IPEDS first-major completion records, exact CIP 51.3801, award level 18. This list does not rank institutions or measure admissions capacity.

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