Practical Nursing students must be able to do the following: • Physical and mental proficiency and energy to fulfill job description.  • Adequate vision (with correction, if necessary, to read medication labels).  • Hearing (with assistive device, if necessary).  • Speech, to be understood by all persons across the life span.  • Sense of touch to feel pulses, temperature, assessments.  • Manual dexterity (of all limbs to operate equipment, syringes and switches)  • Strength to push, pull or lift greater than fifty (50) pounds.  • Ability to lift, carry, push, pull, stoop, and bend, depending on assigned unit.  • Ability to squat and crouch.  • Ability to kneel, crawl and climb.  • Ability to reach above shoulder level.  • Ability to stand and walk for long periods of time.  • Ability to organize, and effectively manage time to meet deadlines.  • Ability to face uncertainties and stress inherent in clinical practice. • Ability to perform neat, accurate work.  • Ability to respond to increasing pressure, emergencies and workloads.  • Ability to set priorities.  • Ability to apply hospital policies and procedures.  • Ability to communicate, in English, effectively and understandably with all health care providers and consumers using both verbal and non-verbal skills.  • Ability to communicate, in English, with acute and chronically ill patients and their significant others.  • Ability to examine and modify our behaviors and attitudes and accepts constructive criticism as needed to facilitate learning and interpersonal relationships. • Ability to document completely and legibly, using acceptable, professional terminology.  • Ability to use a computer system.