Registered Nursing: research 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 research/scholarship doctorate category, award level 17. The file does not provide the exact degree title, so it does not identify every award as a PhD or confirm a supervisor, research opening or funding offer. Verify the actual qualification and current research application route.

Source: connected NCES IPEDS first-major completion records, exact CIP 51.3801, award level 17. This list does not rank institutions or measure admissions capacity.

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