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**Nursing**
One step at a time	Annotated Bibliography	Nurse describes her personal struggles of deciding whether a person with a disability can be an effective and safe nurse.
Incompetent, Unethical, or illegal practice--Teaching students to cope	Annotated Bibliography	Article outlines the ethical standards of nursing and identifies how they guide reporting of incompetent, unethical, or illegal practices.
Helping Students Succeed Despite Learning Disabilities	Annotated Bibliography	Article describing the University of Vermont's Learning Disabilities Program as it relates to nursing.
Attitudes Toward People With Disabilities	Annotated Bibliography	Article describing study that compares attitudes of nursing faculty, students and people with disabilities
Careers for Diabetic Girls in Nursing	Annotated Bibliography	Editorial article on admissions policies in nursing.
Nurse Educators' Attitudes Toward and Decision-making Related to Applicants with Physical Disabilities	Annotated Bibliography	Research article describing results of decision-making by nurse educators regarding applicants with disabilities.
The Americans with Disabilities Act and Essential Functions in Nursing Programs	Annotated Bibliography	Article investigating the percentage of nursing Programs with lists of essential functions that students must proove capable.
Supporting Nursing's Essential Values	Annotated Bibliography	Editorial article on what are the essential values of nursing.
Nursing Students with Learning Disabilities: Appropriate Accomodations	Annotated Bibliography	Article reviewing prevalent strategies that help students with learning disabilities succeed
Nurse Practitioners' and Students' Attitudes Toward People with Disabilities	Annotated Bibliography	Research article comparing attitudes twards people with disabilities among four groups: practitioners, students, education students and the general public
Attitudes of Nursing Home Administrators and Nurses Towards People with Disabilities	Annotated Bibliography	Research article comparing attitudes of nurses and nursing administrators employed at nursing homes towards people with disabilities.
Doin' Politics: Linking Policy and Politics in Nursing	Annotated Bibliography	Article reviewing policy environment in nursing and the application of policies in nursing environments.
Suing Programs of Nursing Education	Annotated Bibliography	Research reviewing case law in nursing litigation.
Disability Discrimination in Nursing Education: An evaluation of legislation and litigation	Annotated Bibliography	Article reviews and evaluates the impact of laws regarding disaability and programs of nursing education.
Should Handicapped People be Allowed to Attend Nursing School?	Annotated Bibliography	Article reviews the Davis case findings and outlines the implications for schools of nursing.
Being an RN	Annotated Bibliography	Nurse comments on her personal experience of being a nurse who acquired a hearing impairment.
Effects of an Educational Intervention on Students' Attitudes towards the Disabled	Annotated Bibliography	Research article to determine how the attitudes of nursing students toward persons with disabilities would improve following participation in a one-day educational conference.
Education of Nursing Students with Special Needs	Annotated Bibliography	Research report on rates of admission and graduation of students with special needs in BSN and AND programs
Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Nursing Education Programs in Florida	Annotated Bibliography	Research report evaluates if more students with disabilities are applying and being admitted to Florida schools of nursing.
A Lesson in Mobility	Annotated Bibliography	Author describes personal experience with a short-term mobility impairment
Jumping through Hoops and Walking on Eggshells or Discrimination, Hazing, and abuse of Students with Disabilities	Annotated Bibliography	Article exploring issues of students with disabilities and discrimination in nursing programs
Nursing Students with Disabilities	Annotated Bibliography	Editorial article describing Dalhousis University's attempt to build guidelines and basic practice standards for schools of nursing.
Disability and Oppression: some Implications for Nurses and Nursing	Annotated Bibliography	Commentary responds to article which suggests that persons with disabilities have begun to veiw professionals as oppressors.
The Meaning of Disability in a Caring Environment	Annotated Bibliography	Research report examines the perceptions of disabled nurses about their disabilities and and identify what nurses can do to create a caring environment.
Conceptualizing Disability in Nursing: Some evidence from Student and their Teachers	Annotated Bibliography	Research investigates how disability is conceptualized and how curriculum influences this.
Helping the Dislexic Nursing Student	Annotated Bibliography	Article describes different ways to identify students with dyslexia and suggests some simple accommodation strategies for students with dislexia
Nursing Students with Learning Disabilities: Guidelines for Fostering Success	Annotated Bibliography	Article gives overview on history, perceptions, and strategies used by nursing faculty toteach students with learning disabilities
Schools of Nursing and the Handicalpped Applicant	Annotated Bibliography	Article reviews legislation both prior and subsequent to the landmark Davis case.
Responses of Schools of Nursing to physicallly, mentally, and substance-impaired students	Annotated Bibliography	Research article describes the responses of nursing to disabled applicants and matriculating students.
Disability, Fundamentals of Nursing Care: Able to care	Annotated Bibliography	Commentary to consider whether people with disabilities can be nurses
Rough Justice	Annotated Bibliography	Research article gathers information about how nurses view disabilities and how a disability might affect nursing practice.
Nursing Students with Disabilities: A Survey of Baccalaureate Nursing Programs	Annotated Bibliography	Research article investigates nursing programs' responses and reactions to applicants and students with disabilities.
Admissions Criteria for Handicapped Students: Focus on the Ability to Provide Safe, Effective Nursing Care Rather than on Indivudual Deficits	Annotated Bibliography	Review of current legislation on admission and program completion criteria for students with physical disabilities seeking nursing educaiton
Responsibilities of Nursing Education: The Lessons of Russell v. Salve Regina	Annotated Bibliography	Review of case law regarding a nursing student dismissed based on obesity.
Nurses in Recovery	Site Link	Information, support and forums for nurses recovering from substance abuse.
Nurse uses Mentors to Reach her Goals	Article	Nurse with hearing impairment profiles her career.
Alice Stafford, Plaintiff, V. The Radford Community Hospital, Inc., Carilion Health Systems, and VHA, Inc., Defendants	Annotated Bibliography	Stafford brought forth these charges after she was terminated from her position at Radford Community Hospital, where she was a nurse.
Zelda Kim Zevator, Plaintiff, V. Methodist Hospital of Houston, Texas, Defendants	Annotated Bibliography	Zevator had been a nurse, then had a knee injury and was was given a light duty desk job. She requested a different desk job and soon after, handed in her resignation, then filed a law suit.
Rachel Darian, Plaintiff, V. University of Massachusetts, Boston, � Defendants	Annotated Bibliography	Darian, a fourth year nursing student, sued the University of Massachusetts under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act and Title IX, alleging discrimination based on her pregnancy. The University motioned for summary judgment.
The Board of Education of the City of New York: letter of advisory regarding a complaint filed against the Board of Education of the City of New York.	Annotated Bibliography	A complaint was filed against the Board of Education when a student was dismissed from the Brooklyn Adult Learning Center Practical Nursing Program.
Stewart Coddington, Plaintiff, V. Adelphi University (et al)	Annotated Bibliography	Coddington sued the defendants for alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act, New York Education Law and the state contract law based on his learning disabilities.

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