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NURSE EDUCATOR
Volume 42, Issue 4, Pages 176-180Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000000348
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Americans With Disabilities Act; disabled; nurses; nursing education; nursing faculty
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The Americans With Disabilities Act requires that nursing programs not discriminate against students with disabilities. This article describes a qualitative study of RNs who had disabilities while in nursing school. As students, participants tried to hide their disabilities, experienced fear and anger from faculty, were frequently told they could never be nurses, wanted to be treated like everyone else, had to work harder than others to prove themselves worthy, and learned to advocate for themselves.
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