Welcome to the New Nurses with Disabilities Forum!

Carefully review the questions re:licensure and renewal in your state. In Texas the wording I believe is have you been hospitalized or had an acute exacerbation in the last 2 years for renewal of license. So, it may depend on where you are. By all means if they ask tell the truth. Never lie to a regulatory body. That will get you in deep doody. They will have questions and may want a medical statement from your MD that you are fit but, it should not keep you from your profession.

I am so surprised at this. Sounds discriminating. i wonder if there are other states that do this. MA is certainly not one of them or I probably would not be a RN.

From nurses I have networked with on this site and others it is a nationwide issue. Nurses who get stuck in financial binds like get sick, loose a job and have no recourses to fall back on there are no organizations to helo them i.e. like help them with a phone bill, light bills or even a car payment.

Mary, Stoneham

Im disabled I have mild spina bifida and have had it all my life obviously I have physical limitations with my legs and I get occasional backache but I have never let it getaway with ruining what I enjoy doing best Nursing love it. its got better over the years when I was younger I had loads of operations loads related to my leg and some related to other things I also have asthma and sometimes have trouble breathing but use asthma sprays to help this now Im walk loads better and can control other things better. Was bullied at school because I had to wear a splint on my left leg but now I don't have to wear it anymore I stoppe dwearing it at 16 years old and I feel much better about myself now I'm much older life was hard when I was younger and this is why I chose to do paediatric nursing so I could help provide a better life for othe people with conditions like this and similar things related to this.

I have Fibromyalgia , epilepsy (now controlled with medication) migraine headaches, psoriatic arthritis with psoriatic arthritis.

I love being a LPN but some days it really sucks to be me!

I have a mild hearing loss, use BTE hearing aids and a battery powered stethoscope. I work night shift, which helps minimize all the noise, telephone orders, meals, etc. I tell the nurses I work with to talk to my face and to say my name first when talking to me. I don't hear all the nurses' conversations so I have quit asking them to repeat themselves and bog down the conversation. I am looking for a nursing specialty that I can do that doesn't entail taking care of patients the whole shift. I have applied to a dialysis job but I have no passion for it. I'm thinking about going back to school for PTA where I have enough science and background courses to finish the degree in one year. Any ideas? Also, any nurses have any suggestions on interviewing with a hearing problem? I have not been broadcasting it, but I do wear my BTE's to the interviews and respond if they ask about them. My problem seems mild to some I have read, but it is a concern of mine.

I am missing my right 4 arm and the rest is paralyzed. I am in mn. and I was wondering if (any) states are required to give accommodations for me during my skills testing? I want to use a gait belt that I purchased and a casbar for helping pushing wheelchairs, but my last school said " your commendations are allowing you to take the test":devil: