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Accommodating Nurses with Disabilities Heres a website just for nurses with a disability. It depends upon how disabled you are. I feel if you made past high school and into nursing school then that in itself says a lot. The doctors need to determine where you stand so that would be the 1st on my list. Then from there I would contact the U.S. Department of Labor who can further direct you. Your not the only person!

Accommodating Nurses with Disabilities Here's a website for nurses who require accommodations. There's the section for your impairment sara! Furthermore here is who you contact to find out more about your disability: U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) The website provided that. So many people are quick to discourage you but listen to me if you graduated high school made it into nursing school you can't be that impaired. Cognitive Impairment –Cognitive impairment, as used in this publication, refers to disturbances in brain functions, such as memory loss, problems with orientation, distractibility, perception problems, and difficulty thinking logically. Cognitive impairment is a syndrome, not a diagnosis. Many conditions can cause cognitive impairment, including multiple sclerosis, depression, alcoholism, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, traumatic brain injury, chronic fatigue syndrome, and stroke.Memory Deficits: Allow the employee to tape record meetings and provide written checklists Provide type written minutes of each meeting Provide written instructions and allow additional training time Difficulty Reading and Writing: Use speech recognition or word-prediction software if handwriting is poor or difficult Use a personal data assistant to help with spelling Seek areas of employment where charting is done by computer or in settings where reading/writing may be decreased, for example in an operating room Use dictation equipment and/or scribes

Im my opinion all these review courses are not how they should be! I know that sounds crazy but hear me out. This is why people do well in nursing school but fail the NCLEX. In nursing school your only focusing on so many chapters for each test and the final is just everything condensed into one. When it's time to prepare for the NCLEX the school hands you a Saunders book with 5,500 questions to do (At least my school did and they should have made it homework to do NCLEX questions) I believed nursing school prepared me for the exam too but I was wrong. Back to the saunders book. That thing is so overwhelming I didn't even continue using it. That was ridiculous! So then I took a review course. Well when you sit there and listen to them talk for 35 hours think about it how much of that info can you seriously 100% retain? It's supposed to be a review of what you learned but when your sitting there listening to them they are explaining how nursing school taught you this but really this is what you should know!! They contradict many things you learned in school?!!?? Explain that to me! I go take the test and I fail!!! So i'm thinking wow this is crazy!!! So I bought UWORLD and it changed my life!!!!!!!!! In my opinion Uworlds technique for teaching you is the best! You answer a question and if you get it right or wrong it tells you right then and there (In tutor mode) all about the disease what is so important to know pictures about somethings and why the wrong choices are wrong and where those wrong choices would be correct. Plus theres only 1800 questions! Not something crazy like 5500. I suggest to you that you order uworld. Set aside 3 days per week which is not overwhelming and do 75 questions each those days. I also suggest you do it in tutor mode because I saw that helped me best because I would learn as I went through each one then maybe 10 questions down I would get it correct which reinforced my knowledge learned. So if you do the 75 questions 3 days a week for 8 weeks your done so go take that test and ace it! Really focus hard on those 75 questions! Don't rush through the questions give your self time to absorb it!

I suggest to you to watch simple nursing videos go to simplenursing.com and youtube has his some of his videos. Try Uworld the questions are amazing! Flashcards are good too! Try everything you can to see whats better for you! Write out things you have to know for the test. Talk through what you must know to anyone even if they don't have medical knowledge, If you can teach it then you will get it! Repetition is the key! Never let these negative rude people stop you from your dreams! You made it through high school so your competent! If you had such a serious problem then you wouldn't have even made it to nursing school! There is always a area for everyone in nursing. Maybe you would do well in home care nursing because you are only dealing with one patient. There are so many different areas to work and you will find your area and excel. Dont worry you got this! If you tell your self you can do it then you will but never give up on your dream. Maybe you have ADD and medication does wonders! Do you have a Diagnosis? Maybe even go part time so it's not as stressful. Some teachers are not good in the way they teach things so I know simple nursing would be good for you. Some nurses are bad in school but they are amazing nurses! Some nurses are great in school and are horrible nurses!

I'd rather have a nurse with memory impairments taking care of me who is on medication to help the condition, rather then one who is at the bar every week drinking or one who's a pill popper!!!! I want someone wants to be a nurse because they enjoy it. I don't one someone who became a nurse because it pays well!! Those are the nurses who don't care about their patients. Maybe this nurse will require longer time with a nurse preceptor to ensure she's okay! Some people are not good with their memory in certain areas for example maybe she can't remember everything she read from a 50 page medical book but if she performed the tasks explained in the medical book then she will retain the knowledge forever. Sailor Nurse: For having so many degree's and being so smart on paper, you sure lack common sense! You do not know the entire situation! Furthermore you do not even know her diagnosis or if she even has one! You do not personally know her strengths or weaknesses! If she made it into nursing school and is maintaining her self through school then I don't see any problem with her being a nurse. The drunks and drug addicts are the problem!!!! The nurses who have no compassion for others is the problem.