Removing Admissions Barriers for Nurses with Disabilities: Addressing Technical Standards
Webinar Details
This webinar identifies the key barriers for students with disabilities entering nursing, including outdated technical standards, and ableist belief systems that impact the admissions and educational process.
This webinar is hosted by Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, Docs with Disabilities Initiative, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, and Johns Hopkins University Disability Health Research Center as is part of a three-part series focused on exploring barriers to inclusion for nurses with disabilities.
Below, you will find the recording for each installment in the series as well as additional resources.
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Additional Resources:
- Resource Toolkit
- Clinical Accomodations and Simulation (Christopher J. Moreland, Maureen Fausone, James Cooke, Christopher McCulloh, Maureen Hillier, Grace C. Clifford, and Lisa M. Meeks)
- White Paper on Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Nursing Educational Programs for the California Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities (CCEPD) (Beth Marks, Sarah Ailey)
- Technical Standards (Michael M. McKee, Steven Gay, Sarah Ailey, and Lisa M. Meeks)
Speakers
Holly J. Humphrey, MD, MACP
President
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
Holly J. Humphrey, MD, MACP, is the eighth president of Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. Immediately prior to her appointment, she served for 15 years as the Ralph W. Gerard Professor in Medicine and Dean for Medical Education at The University of Chicago.
In 1989, Dr. Humphrey and a colleague delivered the country’s first White Coat Ceremony address at The University of Chicago. The Gold Foundation later adopted and formalized this ceremony and today supports similar events in medical and nursing schools across the country. During her tenure as Dean for Medical Education, her signature programs focused on equity, diversity and inclusion, mentoring, and professionalism. She led efforts to increase diversity and belonging by developing pathway programs and co-founding the Bowman Society, which explores issues of health disparity and provides mentoring for those underrepresented in medicine. She was the founding dean of the school’s Identity and Inclusion Committee, which advances civil discourse in the medical school. She is also the founding dean of the Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators and of the MERITS Fellowship program for faculty pursuing research, innovation, teaching, and scholarship in medical education.
She is Chair of the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine’s Board of Directors. She is Chair Emeritus of American Board of Internal Medicine and of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation and a past President of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM).
Dr. Humphrey earned her MD degree with honors from The University of Chicago. Following an internal medicine residency, pulmonary and critical care fellowship, and Chief Residency all at The University of Chicago, she served a 14-year tenure as Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program, which provided the foundation for her career in medical education. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. Crain’s Chicago Business featured her as one of their “Women to Watch,” and the NorthShore University Health System created the Holly J. Humphrey Medical Education Fund with a one-million-dollar gift to The University of Chicago in recognition of her leadership in medical education. The Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine honored her with the Dema C. Daley Founders Award for national excellence as an educator, innovator, and leader. Graduating medical students at The University of Chicago honored Dr. Humphrey five times with the Gender Equity Award and more than 25 times with the Favorite Faculty Teaching Award.
Cassandra Godzik, PhD, MS
Director of Nursing Education
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Cassandra Godzik is a practicing psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) and postdoctoral research fellow in the Departments of Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), Centers for Aging at Dartmouth, and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
Godzik’s nursing journey began in high school when she worked as a nursing assistant in a memory care unit and older adult assisted living facility. During her undergraduate (University of Vermont) and master’s degrees (Regis College), Godzik engaged in research that focused on populations with mental health disorders, while simultaneously working as a psychiatric nurse. All these research and clinical experiences compelled her to earn a doctorate degree in nursing from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where she graduated in 2020. Throughout her doctoral work, she focused on sleep medicine and mental health symptoms and conducted a trial of an online cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) program.
Godzik’s nursing journey began in high school when she worked as a nursing assistant in a memory care unit and older adult assisted living facility. During her undergraduate (University of Vermont) and master’s degrees (Regis College), Godzik engaged in research that focused on populations with mental health disorders, while simultaneously working as a psychiatric nurse. All these research and clinical experiences compelled her to earn a doctorate degree in nursing from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where she graduated in 2020. Throughout her doctoral work, she focused on sleep medicine and mental health symptoms and conducted a trial of an online cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) program.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to all.
Continuing Education Credits
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.