TY - JOUR AU - Mack, Tracy AU - Stephens, Lindsay AU - Epstein, Iris PY - 2021/12/08 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Removing Ableist Barriers in Nursing Education: Clinical Essential Requirements JF - Canadian Journal of Disability Studies JA - CJDS VL - 10 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - 10.15353/cjds.v10i3.820 UR - https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/820 SP - 147-176 AB - <div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p>The current approach to clinical placement training for nurses excludes students with disabilities. The purpose of this article is to introduce a four-step model for nursing programs to identify clinical essential requirements – specific skills and competencies students must gain during placement. Engaging this four-step model will allow educators to identify how essential requirements can be achieved in a variety of ways, and thus can involve accommodations. It will also allow for the identification of which essential requirements cannot be accommodated and must be demonstrated in a prescribed manner due to impacting the nature or integrity of the task. Analyzing clinical essential requirements using this framework will create a consistent and defensible method to determine the flexibility or inflexibility of clinical tasks. The framework provided requires a collaborative process including key experts, nursing students and nurses with disabilities to comprehensively address the challenges clinical environments pose to inclusiveness.</p></div></div></div> ER -