Forms and handbooks

• All Students
  • College of Nursing Appeals Form: This form cannot be saved and resumed at a later date. Please be prepared to provide the following information prior to initiating a form submission:
    • A brief narrative of the request to be considered, including the reason for the appeal, evidence/support for the appeal, and the desired outcome.
    • A single PDF document with any evidence/support you believe would assist the committee in their decision — directions for making a single PDF document.
  • Contract for Completion of Incomplete Coursework  
  • Request for Course Retake 
  • Student Injuries: Student Emergency Care for Injury and Illness 
• Handbooks
  • BSN Student Handbook (2024-25)
  • DNP Student Handbook (2024-25)
  • MSN Student Handbook (2024-25)
  • PhD Student Handbook (2024-25)

  Archives

  • All programs archived handbooks (2015-2022)
• BSN Students
  • College of Nursing Application BSN Essay Form
  • Healthcare Related Service Experience Form (NOTE: the requirement for this form is waived for 2021 applications)
  • Directed Study Approval
  • NCLEX-RN Process
• MSN Students

  Master's Directed Study Approval 

  MSN Change in Specialty 

  Petition for Transfer of Graduate Credit

• DNP Students

  Petition for Transfer of Graduate Credit

  DNP Annual Review 

  DNP Benchmark for Progression Form 

  DNP Gap Analysis Form 

  DNP Directed Study Form 

  DNP Project Committee Approval Form 

  DNP Project Clinical Consultant Approval Form 

  DNP Project Committee Change Form 

  DNP Change in APRN Specialty Form  

  DNP Prelim Exam Process and Written Project Proposal Outline (revised 5/9/2018) 

  DNP Intention to Take Written Preliminary Exam Form 

  DNP Written Preliminary Exam Completion Approval Form 

  DNP Intention to Take Oral Preliminary Exam Form 

  DNP Oral Preliminary Exam Completion Approval Form 

  DNP Candidacy Form 

  WSU IRB Administration: Human Participant Research forms and submissions requirements 

  DNP IRB Project Chair Attestation Form

  DNP Project Completion Approval Form 

  DNP Project Permission to Copy Form

• PhD Students

  Professional goals template

  Sequential forms

  • Transfer of credit*
  • Plan of work* 
  • Directed study
  • BSN to PhD pilot study agreement 
  • Research residency agreement form
  • Research residency evaluation form 
  • Teaching residency agreement 
  • Teaching residency evaluation 
  • Concentration plan 
  • Potential concentration courses

  Annual forms

  • Annual review 
  • BSN-PhD benchmark for advisor form
  • MSN-PhD benchmark for advisor form 
  • Instructions for submitting the Annual Review/Individual Development Plan
    • Online Annual Review and Individual Development Plan Site

  Qualifying exams

  • PhD qualifying written exam review 
  • PhD report on oral exam*
  • PhD candidacy*

  Proposal and final defense

  • Manuscript format guidelines 
  • Proposal defense posting announcement
  • Final defense posting announcement
  • Prospectus and record of approval*
  • Institutional review board (IRB) forms
  • Conflict of interest* 
  • Final defense report*
  • Degree completion deadlines

  Administrative forms

  • Change of advisor
  • Time extension*

  *These forms must be accessed via the WSU Grad School website; you must log in with your access id and password. When completing forms with faculty member information, be sure to use the faculty member's access id versus a general email address; enter a faculty member's name into WSU's web site search tool to view their access id.

• Distance Learning

  Distance Learning Policies

  Graduate Distance Learning Exception Request Form