1. Nurse Faculty Perception of Nursing Students with Disabilities: Promoting an Attitude of Caring
Enest Richards
August 23, 2019

2. Purpose The purpose of this paper was to:
Explore accommodations for nursing students with disabilities
Examine the perception and attitude toward students with disabilities being accepted to schools of nursing
Discuss the utilization of the Theory of Caring in order to alter faculty perception

3. Literature Review Focused on there concepts
Criteria for admission to nursing school based on ability to perform essential skills
Should not be determined by essentials but should include technical standards
The what not how a skill can be performed
Accommodation
Faculty would rather not provide accommodation
ADA does not define accommodation so accommodation is interpreted by faculty
Delegation as a way of providing accommodation
Faculty attitude/perception of students with disabilities
Attitude predicts behavior
Explicit and implicit behavior
Explicit attitude well documented. Implicit attitude not well documented
Disability Attitude Implicit Association Test (DA-IAT) and open ended questions measured implicit attitude

4. Findings
Laws prior to ADA and ADAA focused on safety not accommodation
Landmark case Southeastern Community College v. Davis
ADA enacted 1990
Person with disability defined as someone who has
Physical or mental impairment which hinders 1 or more life impairments
Has a record of such impairment
Regarded as having such an impairment
Revision of ADA was ADAA 2008
Expanded protection of ADA
Focused on daily living activities such as seeing, hearing, sleeping breathing, bowel and bladder

5. Faculty Attitude Faculty attitude:
Contributed to decrease in admission to nursing school
Had preference for abled-bodied students
Concern for patient safety
Faculty belief:
Fear students with disability could not function in the clinical setting
Students could not pass the licensure exam

6. Caring Theory Nel Noddings Theory of Care
Aim of education should be to produce competent, caring, loving and loveable people
All teachers are not caring
Caring teachers listen to their students
Teacher and student are “carer” and cared for

7. Conclusion and Recommendations
If nurse educators can establish an attitude of caring they will be able to have empathy for their student
Recommendations
Additional research is needed:
Studies regarding nurses educator’s attitude on essential abilities
Evidence-based teaching strategies for students in clinical, skills and classroom
Effectiveness of disabled nurse researchers in providing faculty development