Deaf Nurses and Hearing Thoracic Sounds

[ITIT]

Hello everyone, I am a deaf individual who seeks to become a nurse. However, I have encountered some barriers. Such barriers have come in the form of blatant discrimination and discouragement of becoming a nurse merely because I cannot complete certain tasks in the generalized manner in which a hearing nurse might. But I have to ask, we have so many machines that can now do many of the things that Nurses used to do like taking blood pressure and heart rate. If you cannot diagnose when you are completing such an assessment, why do you practice a task that is redundant at best, a task that no matter how well you do it, still needs to be checked by a Doctor? 

[dianah, ASN]

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