Nursing Students with Disabilities: Change the
Course
By Donna Carol Maheady, Ed.D., P.N.P., RN
Nursing Students with Disabilities charts the course of eight nursing
students who have disabilities as they complete arduous nursing training.
The students’ stories, by themselves, are inspirational and educational. By
describing their own challenges of deafness, Crohn’s Disease, physical
disabilities, etc., the students show us that where there is a will there is
a way.
Maheady takes the students’ experience and extends it to the next level
adapting the individualized educational approach used in special education
to the nursing program and creating individualized nursing education
programs. Her approach is unique and fulfills a broader need in the
community of people with disabilities.
