Assisting Students with Disabilities to Enroll in Allied Health Programs MP4 Video Consortium for Healthcare Education Online Career Coach Professional Development Webinar April 28, 2015

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has adopted new regulations that require contractors to set a target of having 7 percent of their work force be comprised of employees with disabilities. The most immediate impact on higher education of this change to Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is that more employers will come to campuses seeking a fully diverse slate of candidates, including those with disabilities. In this session, Evans and Marks, experts in recruitment and retention of nursing students from diverse backgrounds, including those with disabilities, discussed strategies used to recruit students with disabilities into nursing and allied health programs and some of the strategies to remove barriers that were identified at a roundtable sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy in collaboration with the National Organization of Nurses with Disabilities. Interesting material to review on this topic: Open the Door, Get ‘Em a Locker: Educating Nursing Students with Disabilities - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3WQtR7yUpI Health Care Professionals with Disabilities Career Trends, Best Practices and Call-to-Action Policy Roundtable http://www.dol.gov/odep/alliances/nondallianceroundtablereport.pdf ADA National Network, https://adata.org Rocky Mountain ADA Center, www.adainformation.org National Organization of Nurses with Disabilities, Physical Limits on CPR Quality and Methods for Quality Improvement, http://nond.org/Trending/files/0fbe5a419b71687066247e8aa9d3e010-101.html National Organization of Nurses with Disabilities, Open the Door, Get ‘Em a Locker: Educating Nursing Students with Disabilities http://nond.org/Trending/files/1e52799dc61452f502cb053369d4a403-9.html National Organization of Nurses with Disabilities, Danielle, a Nurse with a Disability, http://nond.org/Trending/files/b97650e1731d11ddda68b53ba161a30c-7.html US DOL, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP)-New Regulations-Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/section503.htm Web Accessibility, webaim.org Job Accommodation Network: https://askjan.org National Organization of Nurses with Disabilities, Advocacy Strategies for School, http://nond.org/Self_Advocacy/Education.html Evans, B.C. (2005). Our students, our teachers: Nursing education for students with disabilities. In M. Oermann (Ed.), Annual Review of Nursing Education (Vol. 3) (pp. 3-22). New York: Springer Bronwynne Evans and Beth Marks delivered this professional development webinar on April 28, 2015 to Consortium for Healthcare Education Online (CHEO) career coaches. About the Presenters: Bronwynne Evans, PhD, a professor and director of PhD in Nursing and Healthcare Innovations at Arizona State University (ASU) and the former vice president, National Organization of Nurses with Disabilities. Evans joined ASU in 2004. Before coming to ASU, Evans served as associate professor at Intercollegiate College of Nursing, Washington State University, College of Nursing. Evans is an expert in recruitment and retention of nursing students from diverse backgrounds, including those with disabilities, and informal care-giving in Mexican-American families. Additionally, she has researched and is published in areas of nursing education; care-giving in border populations; psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual health disparities in end of life and palliative care; and mixed methods studies. She earned her PhD in education from the University of Washington, a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Washington, and a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Washington State University. Beth Marks, PhD, RN is associate director for research in the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Developmental Disabilities, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), research associate professor in the Department of Disability and Human Development, UIC, and immediate past president of the National Organization of Nurses with Disabilities. She directs research programs related to the empowerment and advancement of persons with disabilities through health promotion, health advocacy, and primary health care. She co-edited a special issue in Nursing Clinics of North America on health issues for persons with developmental disabilities, a Feasibility Study Report to advance nursing education at Bel-Air Sanatorium and Hospital in Panchgani, Maharashtra, India through the WHO Collaborating Center, UIC, and a monograph on Primary Health Care in the Americas for the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization. Marks produced a documentary with Bronwynne Evans, RN, PhD entitled Open the Door, Get 'Em a Locker: Educating Nursing Students with Disabilities. She has authored two books entitled: Health Matters: The Exercise and Nutrition Health Education Curriculum for People with Developmental Disabilities and Health Matters for People with Developmental Disabilities: Creating a Sustainable Health Promotion Program.
Date:
2015-04-28
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Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
Subjects:
Consortium for Healthcare Education Online (CHEO) career coaches, career coach professional development, recruiting nursing and allied health students with disabilities, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, strategies to remove barriers for disabled students

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