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School Nurses, Advocates for Students with Disabilities

American Nurse

Karen Nestor, MSN, RN, CPN, NCSN School Nursing is a complex practice in which professional nurses care for students from young preschool age through adolescence. For students with chronic conditions and/or disabilities, this law could not be more crucial. Department of Education, 2023).

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Perceptions of “Reasonable” Accommodations among Nursing Faculty and Student Nurses with Disabilities

American Nurse

Nursing programs have seen an increase in enrollment in student nurses with disabilities (SNWD) who require accommodation in the classroom and clinical setting. Alternatively, for their part, SNWDs may assume that they work harder than other students for similar academic results.

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Nurturing Success: Empowering Students with Different Abilities in Nursing School for a Healthy Future

American Nurse

Little research exists on nursing students with accommodations in higher education. Nursing schools historically do not admit students to nursing programs with physical disabilities due to the technical requirements of being a Registered Nurse (RN). 2020; Trujillo, 2021).

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Nursing Education in the Digital Age: Innovations and Challenges

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Consider a student who doesn’t use the Internet, computers, or other electronic gadgets. Students can send and receive emails from their lecturers and have access to network libraries’ resources. To master innovative approaches in health care students should be familiar with them. It’s hard, if not impossible.

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These U.K. Nurses Got the Royal Treatment at King Charles’s Coronation

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Learning disability nursing student Claire Thompson was also in attendance. She won the Royal College of Nursing Northern Ireland student of the year award in 2022 for creating a new online teacher communication tool called Makaton that combines sign language and speech. She had to arrive at Westminster Abbey at 7:30 a.m.

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Breaking Down the OTD Capstone Process

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Part of what distinguishes USAHS’ entry-level Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD) degree from our Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) degree is that our OTD students complete a capstone project. The capstone project is an opportunity for students to dive deeply into a topic that interests them within the OT field. I feel their pride.”

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What is a Pediatric Occupational Therapy Assistant?

Joyce

Occupational Therapy (OT) helps people of any age living with injuries and disabilities learn to perform daily activities. Pediatric Occupational Therapy Assistants (OTAs) help children with a wide range of disabilities, injuries, and physical and cognitive needs play and learn. For children, daily activities mean learning and playing.