Nursing Educators

The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
The Center helps colleges and universities develop non-discriminatory, non-punitive approaches to students in crisis because of mental health problems.

Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
This on-line resource offers assistance to employers and educators related to reasonable accommodation for people with psychiatric disabilities.

Disability Compliance for Higher Education
"Promote disclosure, create connections to help nursing students with disabilities". This article offers suggestions for nursing faculty and disability services staffers.

Caption First, Inc., provides instantaneously translated text known as CART/captioning (one-on-one, Internet, overhead) for people (nurses) with hearing loss in classrooms, clinical settings, meetings and seminars. Contact us for a free demonstration.

Exceptional Parent Library
Provides books, videos and software for parents, educators and professionals encompassing fifty need specific and general categories.

The Health Science Faculty Education Project
The Health Science Faculty Education Project assists faculty to provide the most effective instruction for each student's unique needs and strengths.

Hear Ink, provides CART (Computer Accessed Realtime Translation). We have the ability to do CART from a remote location so a nurse can hire us from anywhere. We also do realtime captioning, which is live captioning, for events where they are making a video. We also do that from a remote location. This service would benefit nursing students with auditory, physical or learning disabilities. A complete transcript of everything said in the classroom is provided.

www.eNurseScribe.com offers lifelong learning resources for nursing students, practicing nurses, nurse faculty, and nurse authors.

www.hellofriend.org The Ennis Cosby Foundation was established by Dr. Bill and Camille Cosby to honor the memory of their son. It provides teaching strategies for students with dyslexia and learning differences.

Medical faculty face disabilities stigma
A survey reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests disabled faculty members who work in the medical profession feel stymied by the stigma often associated with disabilities.

Notetaker Training Online training of student notetakers - comprehensive, interactive and free! Camden County College, NETAC Central Office and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology.

Northeast Technical Assistance Center (NETAC) The provides outreach and technical assistance to postsecondary programs in the Northeast serving individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing.

Postsecondary Education Programs Network is the national collaboration of the four Regional Postsecondary Education Centers for Individuals who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing. The goal of PEPNet is to assist postsecondary institutions to attract and effectively serve individuals who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

Rush University College of Nursing sponsored Students with Disabilities: Nursing Education and Practice in April, 2003. Topics included: legal aspects of accommodations, nursing education and accommodations, employment and accommodations, regulations, licensure, and how-to effect change. A panel included students with disabilities who successfully completed a nursing program and licensure exam. Download the proceedings.

Teaching College Students with Disabilities
This site provides links to online resources for faculty and staff.

Tobacco Free Nurses
is the first national program focused on helping nurses and student nurses to stop smoking.

University of Washington (DO-IT) Provides a "Faculty Room", for faculty and administrators at postsecondary institutions to learn about how to create classroom environments that maximize

University of Montana (DO-IT) University of Montana/AHEAD/National Federation of the Blind. A best practice model for students who are blind or have low vision is presented.

Virtual I.V. The Virtual I.V. is an interactive system for learning intravenous catheterization. 3D graphics provide visual realism, while a feedback device simulates the sense of touch. Virtual patients respond with bleeding, bruising, and swelling.