Accommodation for personality disorders

A study funded by the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH) in 2007 found that approximately 9.1 percent of American adults has at least one personality disorder (Lenzenweger, Lane, Loranger, & Kessler, 2007).

The ADA does not contain a list of medical conditions that constitute disabilities. Instead, the ADA has a general definition of disability that each person must meet (EEOC Regulations . . ., 2011). Therefore, some people with personality disorders will have a disability under the ADA and some will not.

Read more from the Job Accommodation Network about reasonable accommodation for personality disorders. 

http://askjan.org/media/personality.html

Let's celebrate congenital heart disease awareness month and a 1 in 100 Nurse!

February marks the beginning of congenital heart disease (CHD) awareness month. 


Christy Sillman, RN, MSN lives with CHD 24/7. 


She works 5 days a week as an Adult CHD nurse coordinator at Stanford and supports her CHD peers (zipper sisters) online.


February is about being vocal, gaining awareness, and getting people to care about the number one birth defect.


Christy Sillman is 1 in 100 born with congenital heart disease. 

                                Christy Sillman is a nurse!

Christy is included in this touching video of zipper sisters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5veYTUYiTr8&feature=share

                Read more about Christy Sillman, RN, MSN.

http://healthier.stanfordchildrens.org/nurse-coordinator-stanfords-adult-congenital-heart-program-disease-cares/


Please share!

With thanks,

Donna

Arthritis not stopping 20-year-old nursing student | The Columbian

What an asset she will be to our profession!



Arthritis not stopping 20-year-old nursing student | The Columbian

The new ruling on "Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability"....a good thing?

"On September 24, 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs published a Final Rule in the Federal Register that makes changes to the regulations implementing Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (Section 503) at 41 CFR Part 60-741. Section 503 prohibits federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating in employment against individuals with disabilities (IWDs), and requires these employers to take affirmative action to recruit, hire, promote, and retain these individuals. The new rule strengthens the affirmative action provisions of the regulations to aid contractors in their efforts to recruit and hire IWDs, and improve job opportunities for individuals with disabilities. The new rule also makes changes to the nondiscrimination provisions of the regulations to bring them into compliance with the ADA Amendments Act of 2008."

http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/section503.htm

The voluntary self-identification form is an OMB-approved form.

Have you been asked to complete the form?

http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/sec503/Voluntary%20Self-Identification%20of%20Disability%20CC-305%20Final.doc#bookmark

Please share your thoughts.
Did it encourage you to disclose? If so, did it help you in any way? Hurt you?

The Exceptional Nurse: Tales from the trenches of truly resilient nurses working with disabilities.... gets high marks!

Many thanks to Dr. Lisa Goins, family nurse practitioner and

owner of couture health care, for this review of the book!


http://www.couturehealthcare.org/couture-health-care-blog.html

Exceptional Nurse an Exceptional Resource!

Happy Holidays to everyone,

I am so excited to share a new article written about www.ExceptionalNurse.com.

May thanks to Nina Rao for writing the piece and to everyone who was interviewed.

Enjoy!!!

Donna


http://www.insightintodiversity.com/disability/an-exceptional-resource-for-would-be-nurses-with-disabilities

Book review showcases nurses with vision loss

With thanks to Katy Lewis from the American Foundation for the Blind for a review of "The Exceptional Nurse: Tales from the trenches of truly resilient nurses working with disabilities".

Katy showcases commentary written by Detra Bannister, from the American Foundation for the Blind.........

Check out this preview of Detra’s commentary from the book!

I was very sorry to hear about the traumatic loss of Barbara’s son, husband and sight all wrapped into one long lasting event. People are amazing when they respond to such keen mental suffering the way she did. The triumphant outcome of keeping a promise and advancing her degree is tremendously healing and satisfying.

If you are now among the more than 25 million people in the United States living with vision loss, you need to know how important it is to find ways to accomplish routine tasks and goals. These are the skills that will enable you to live independently and productively, read and write, maintain a career—or launch a new one—raise a family, have a social life, travel, enjoy recreational sports, and games. In short, lead a normal life.

Go back and read Barbara’s story. Get in touch with American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) CareerConnect mentors who, in spite of being blind or visually impaired, are working as nurses. They have already traveled this road. Volunteers in this program can help the nurse or nursing student who is/has lost sight sort through the twists and turns of navigating their way to a career in nursing (or back into one).

Questions to ask yourself: Do you want to stay in this field of nursing or use this as an opportunity to broaden your experience? Do you want to stay in nursing at all or use your skills to re-career? Be encouraged that accepting that you may have to modify what you do in nursing or switch areas altogether is a winning strategy and not a defeat.

To read more of Detra’s commentary or any of the other inspirational stories, get your copy of The Exceptional Nurse: Tales from the trenches of truly resilient nurses working with disabilities today!

http://www.afb.org/blog/careerconnect-blog/the-exceptional-nurse-book-highlights-nurses-with-disabilities-and-visual-impairment/12