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Nurse educators are increasingly facing accommodation of students with disabilities in their nursing curricula, and questions regarding issues of fairness to all students and patient safety often rise. Several schools and state boards of nursing have turned to writing lists of essential functions of nursing to provide a framework. Before the list is written, educators need to examine their own thoughts on the definition of nursing and the abilities essential to functioning as a nurse.
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