Neal-Boylan, Leslie,

Nurses with disabilities : professional issues and job retention / Leslie Neal-Boylan. - 1 online resource (xv, 208 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Who are nurses with disabilities? -- Why are nurses with disabilities leaving nursing? -- Hiding the disability -- Disability, job longevity, and career choice -- Does having a disability compromise patient safety? -- Nurses with disabilities and the healthcare environment -- Nurse heroics -- Retaining nurses with disabilities.

""This book will provide nurses with the information to make objective and fact based assessments ... Moreover, it will arm nursing professionals with an understanding of how the issue of disability is affecting workforce supply in nursing, how accommodations can provide assistance to individuals with disabilities, and how a balanced and thoughtful approach can allow nursing professionals to function to their fullest."". Geraldine Polly Bednash, PhD, RN, FAAN. Chief Executive Officer/Executive Director. American Association of Colleges of Nursing. ""[This book] has brought together information.


English.

9780826110121 0826110126




Nurses with disabilities.
Nursing.
People with disabilities.
Nurses.
Women nurses.
Job satisfaction.
Vocational guidance.

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610.73

2013 A-359 WY 16.1