hearing impaired

[buffybuffy]

Hi, I have mild hearing loss in one ear and moderate hearing loss in the other ear, I'm too self-conscious to wear my hearing aids as I'm a mature student and already feel our of place as I'm older than the other students! I've had hearing loss all my life but now I'm doing placements in a hospital I'm finding it very difficult to hear what people are saying and doctor's accents are particularly difficult. When I have told people I'm on placement with about my hearing they are sympathetic, but I find it difficult to tell every single person I come into contact with, especially doctors, that I need to have eye contact to hear them, many doctors and anaesthetists don't give a student nurse any time to speak, let alone tell them something personal like hearing loss. I don't want to be treated any differently to other people but find it hard to bring up the subject of hearing when some don't even acknowledge a 'hello'

does anyone else have this problem?? :-) thanks x

[morte, LPN, LVN]

Her comment was interpreted as ethnocentric by her preceptor and her manager, she can rectify this misinterpretation by taking responsibiliy for offending him.

baloney. she asked him to slow down, and by way of explanation mentioned he had an accent. the business is required to accommodate for disabilities when it is not going to create a large problem for them..... and req. this egotistical fellow nurse to do so, would not.