NOND Board MemberRosemary Ciotti RN, MSN
Clinical Specialist/ Nurse Practitioner
Health Care of Women
Community Health Nursing: Private practice
President, Global Organization of Feminists with Disabilities
(501 c3) http://www.gofwd.org/
President Accessible Living, Inc.
http://www.accessiblearlington.com/
900 N. Stafford St. #2322
Arlington, VA 22203
As an able bodied nurse I never realized how inaccessible our profession was; that isn't even taking into consideration the limitations of the built environment! Once I became a wheelchair user I was viewed as wholly inadequate and unqualified to work as a nurse and found the built environment in health care facilities to be wholly lacking in physical access. NOND's mission will allow me a venue to assist our profession to be stronger and more vibrant. We have nurses with decades of valuable experience who have left nursing because the definition of a nurse has continued to be rigid, limiting, and unimaginative and unable to support nurses as they age, develop disabilities, or chronic illness. Being involved with NOND allows me the opportunity to be part of a constituency to educate, inform and advocate for nurses with different abilities.
Clinical Specialist/ Nurse Practitioner
Health Care of Women
Community Health Nursing: Private practice
President, Global Organization of Feminists with Disabilities
(501 c3) http://www.gofwd.org/
President Accessible Living, Inc.
http://www.accessiblearlington.com/
900 N. Stafford St. #2322
Arlington, VA 22203
As an able bodied nurse I never realized how inaccessible our profession was; that isn't even taking into consideration the limitations of the built environment! Once I became a wheelchair user I was viewed as wholly inadequate and unqualified to work as a nurse and found the built environment in health care facilities to be wholly lacking in physical access. NOND's mission will allow me a venue to assist our profession to be stronger and more vibrant. We have nurses with decades of valuable experience who have left nursing because the definition of a nurse has continued to be rigid, limiting, and unimaginative and unable to support nurses as they age, develop disabilities, or chronic illness. Being involved with NOND allows me the opportunity to be part of a constituency to educate, inform and advocate for nurses with different abilities.
