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Dr. Marks directs research programs to empower people with disabilities through health promotion, health advocacy, and primary health care.

Open the Door, Get ‘Em a Locker: Educating Nursing Students with Disabilities

This documentary film produced by Bronwynne Evans, RN, PhD and Beth Marks, RN, PhD chronicles the experience of a nursing student who entered a baccalaureate program using a wheelchair. The 23 minute film provides a forum for the voices of nursing students, faculty, administrators, and agency nursing staff to discuss trials and triumphs encountered during […]

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Open the Door, Get 'Em a Locker: Educating Nursing Students with Disabilities

Open the Door, Get ‘Em a Locker: Educating Nursing Students with Disabilities Open the Door Student PerspectiveOpen the Door Graduate Reflection This documentary film produced by Bronwynne Evans, RN, PhD and Beth Marks, RN, PhD chronicles the experience of a nursing student who entered a baccalaureate program using a wheelchair. The 23 minute film provides

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Nurses with Disabilities Find On-the-Job Support

by Linda ChildersMonster.comWhile working as a nurse in today’s healthcare world can be stressful enough, nurses with disabilities can face additional on-the-job challenges, including colleagues who may not feel they are capable of doing the work and needing assistance in a job that often requires strength and stamina. However, by making some adjustments, nurses with

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Report on the State of Science on Health Risks and Aging in People with Intellectual Disabilities

Report on the State of Science on Health Risks and Aging in People with Intellectual Disabilities (2009). Haveman, M.J., Heller, T., Lee, L.A, Maaskant, M.A, Shooshtari, S., Strydom, A. IASSID Special Interest Research Group on Aging and Intellectual Disabilities/Faculty Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Dortmund. This paper summarizes a review of the scientific literature over the

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A Rich Mosaic: Emerging research on Asian families of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities

A Rich Mosaic: Emerging research on Asian families of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Ghosh, S., & Magaña S. (2009). In L. Glidden & M. Seltzer (Eds). International Review of Research in Mental Retardation, 37, 179-212.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0074775009370068

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Salud en Mujeres Con Discapacidad Intellectual

Salud en Mujeres Con Discapacidad Intellectual (2009).  Heller, T. In M. A. Verdugo Alonso, T. N. Sánchez, B. J. de Urries Vega, & M. Crespo Cuadrado (Eds.)  Mejorando resultados personales para una vida de calidad:  VII jornadas científicas de investigación sobre personas con discapacidad (pp 311-322). Salmanca:  Amaru Ediciones E Inico.

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