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Nursing Students With Learning Disabilities: Guidelines For Fostering Success
Author(s) -
Shuler Sandra N.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
nursing forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.618
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1744-6198
pISSN - 0029-6473
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6198.1990.tb00844.x
Subject(s) - graduation (instrument) , learning disability , nursing , psychology , nurse education , medical education , medicine , developmental psychology , geometry , mathematics
Learning disabilities can be devastating for the nursing student, interfering with academic performance and with success on the NCLEX‐RN. Within the past five to ten years, college educators are seeing an increasing number of students with learning disabilities diagnosed in the 1970s, who are now ready for higher education. This phenomenon is becoming apparent as well in schools of nursing in the United States. This article describes the problem, gives characteristics by which the student with a learning disability can be identified, and suggests methods for assisting the student to achieve success in school and on the national licensing examination following graduation.