deaf nurse
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right on sister!!!!!
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Hi I am hard of hearing and student nurse from Illinois. I had experinced hardships with nurse educ.instruction. They are having a hard time believing that deaf or hard of hearing can have access or professional careers in nursing or medicine. I tried to explained to them there are deaf/hard of hearing nurses and doctors out there. My questions to those who are working as a nurse or student nurse, how did you overcome this type of barrier and What resource did you use while in school..i.e for example did you uses CART captioning or interpreters? If you did uses interpreters what level were they and were they familiar with medicine/nursing content and terminology? Also how well did each of you did on tests? Did you have the interpreters interpret the questions to you or were you able to understand the material the way they worded the test? Thanks Abby