Accessibility Challenges with Nursing Student Disabilities
Webinar Details & Objectives
Do nurse faculty face challenges or have a lack of awareness of how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to students? Dive into the ADA and how it applies to your current and prospective students. The focus of the presentation is to change attitudes and knowledge about nursing students with disabilities, admission criteria, accommodations, and clinical placements. admissions and accommodations.
Objectives:
- Analyze the misconceptions about admitting and educating nursing students with disabilities.
- Present a different approach to consider for educating nursing students with disabilities.
- Offer solutions to challenges faced when educating nursing students with disabilities.
Sponsored by the AACN's Organizational Leadership Network.
Speakers
Michelle D. Miller, JD, MPHAssociate Professor of Legal Studies
Quinnipiac University
Michelle D. Miller, graduated with a B.S. in Nursing from Penn State University and became an Army Nurse, serving in Desert Storm during her time on active duty. She continued her education with a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Yale University, focusing on maternal and child health. Finally, she received her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Cornell University. After clerking for two federal judges, she practiced in the Health Law Practice Group of a large Boston Law Firm. In 2012, Dr. Miller became a member of the Legal Studies Department at Quinnipiac University. At Quinnipiac, she created a new course in Health Care Law, offered to both Health Sciences and Nursing majors as well as Legal Studies students. The course introduces students to the fascinating intersection of health care practice and law, covering such topics as Medicare, Medicaid, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, medical malpractice law, and various topics in bioethics and public health. Dr. Miller’s scholarship has focused on disability law, in particularly as it applies to nursing education. Of especial interest to Dr. Miller is the way in which the U.S. Supreme Court has used various strategies, such as state sovereign immunity, to limit the reach of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Leslie Neal-Boylan, PhD, RN, FAANDean and Professor
University of Massachusetts Lowell, School of Nursing
Dr. Neal-Boylan is Dean and Professor of the Solomont School of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Dr. Neal-Boylan is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and is also certified in rehabilitation nursing. Her research focuses on the nursing workforce. She has studied nurses and nursing students with disabilities for 11 years. She leads the Nurses with Disabilities Campaign to increase awareness of the capabilities of nurses with disabilities. She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, books and book chapters. Dr. Neal-Boylan is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to deans, faculty, staff and students from AACN member schools of nursing. All non-member audiences will be required to pay a $59 webinar fee.