Successful Transitions to Employment for Nursing Students who have a Disability

Learning Objectives

• Understand the importance of maintaining mental wellbeing while studying to be a nurse or midwife
• Provide flexibility in accommodating students on work placements – the ‘what’ versus ‘how’

• Understand that students learn in different ways through the application of the principles of universal design

• Enable students who disclose their disability to successfully transition to employment and reach their full potential as a nurse or midwife