title: The Lived Experience in the Clinical Setting of Nursing Students With Disabilities.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This qualitative study utilizes Moustakas's psychological phenomenology to explore the lived experiences in the clinical setting of nursing students with disabilities.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Overall, the numbers of college students with disabilities are increasing, and more students with disabilities are being admitted into nursing programs.
  
  
  METHODS
  A purposive sample of 13 junior and senior baccalaureate nursing students with self-declared disabilities from two Northeastern baccalaureate nursing programs were interviewed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Five main themes and 12 subthemes emerged from the data. The main themes are: masking a disability, revealing a disability, affecting clinical experiences, overcoming challenges in clinical, and sharing experiences with others. The findings include: missing out on clinical experiences, limiting clinical performance, and developing strategies to adapt to a disability. Discrimination was found to exist for nursing students with disabilities who realized that they were now responsible for managing their disabilitiesCONCLUSION: Recommendations are offered for faculty orientation programs and disability services offices.
authors.affiliation: Amy Luckowski, PhD, RN, CCRN, CNE, is a 2013-2014 NLN Jonas Scholar and an assistant professor at Neumann University School of Nursing, Aston, Pennsylvania. The author would like to acknowledge her dissertation chair, Dr. Anne Krouse, for her assistance with this article. For more information, write to Dr. Luckowski at aluckowski@verizon.net.
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Luckowski
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D036301:Qualitative Research; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult