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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

  • A program that generally prepares individuals in the knowledge, techniques and procedures for promoting health, providing care for sick, disabled, informed, 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. Find Colleges Offering Nursing Degree.
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    • Job Description
      Demonstrate and teach patient care in classroom and clinical units to nursing students. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of both teaching and research.
      Important Abilities
      • Oral Comprehension
      • Written Comprehension
      • Oral Expression
      • Written Expression
      • Problem Sensitivity
      • Deductive Reasoning
      • Inductive Reasoning
      • Speech Clarity
    • Job Description
      Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required. Includes advance practice nurses such as: nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse midwives, and certified registered nurse anesthetists. Advanced practice nursing is practiced by RNs who have specialized formal, post-basic education and who function in highly autonomous and specialized roles.
      Salary and Wages

      Little Rock-North Little Rock, AR

      • Total Employment: 9,300
      • Average Annual Salary: $62,100
      • Average Hourly Rate: $29.86
      Projections
      • Total Employment (2006): 2,504,664
      • Total Employment Projected (2016): 3,092,013
      • Percent Job Growth: 23.45%
      Important Abilities
      • Oral Comprehension
      • Written Comprehension
      • Oral Expression
      • Written Expression
      • Problem Sensitivity
      • Deductive Reasoning
      • Inductive Reasoning
      • Information Ordering
      • Near Vision
      • Speech Recognition
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    Awarded Degrees and Program Completion Details
    Nursing
     TotalAssociateBachelorMaster
    Overall
    All Students166-12541
     
    By Gender
    Male15-132
    Female151-11239
     
    By Race
    Non-Resident Alien----
    American Indian1-1-
    Black19-154
    Asian1-1-
    Hispanic2-2-
    White143-10637
    Unknown----
     
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    • 2105 E. Aggie Road
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    • 2801 S University Ave
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