Open the Door, Get 'Em a Locker


Educating Nursing Students with Disabilities

Open the Door Film
© 2009 Bronwynne Evans and Beth Marks
Open The Door, Get 'Em a Locker:
Educating Nursing Students with Disabilities
Site last published: 01/07/10

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 this experience.

It is a real life example of the exploration of roles and responsibilities in nursing education, experiential learning, shifting perspectives, and being a part of old ways turning into new ways in the world of nursing.

The film is now available to order. The Open the Door, Get 'Em a Locker: Educating Nursing Students with Disabilities Package includes the following items:
  • 1 DVD
  • 1 Booklet with Foreward, Postscript, Discussion Questions, and Reading List
Cost
$100.00 (within the continental U.S.)
$120.00 (outside the continental (U.S.)


For more information about disability and nursing visit the National Organization of Nurses with Disabilities (NOND).