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Being Your Own Self Advocate

Being Your Own Self Advocate. A Key to Success in the Field of Healthcare. Outline. Can’t means Won’t Understanding your disability; Recognizing your strengths and weaknesses How to adapt the healthcare environment to fit your needs Self-advocacy Clinical/ Co-op Experiences

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Being Your Own Self Advocate

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  1. Being Your Own Self Advocate A Key to Success in the Field of Healthcare

  2. Outline • Can’t means Won’t • Understanding your disability; Recognizing your strengths and weaknesses • How to adapt the healthcare environment to fit your needs • Self-advocacy • Clinical/ Co-op Experiences • How and when to ask for help

  3. Can’t Means Won’t • Sarah Stonier, June 3rd 1987. • 3rd year University of New Brunswick, Bathurst Site, Nursing Student • Diagnosed in 1997 with Dysgraphia • Placed in special SLD program for Jr. High and High School. • Accepted into UNB in 2005 with an entrance scholarship

  4. Understanding your disability • What is your disability? • How did you feel when you found out/realised that you had a disability? • What have you learned about yourself through living with your disability? • Can you describe your disability, to your self, to your friends, to your employer? • How have you adapted your life, your home to fit the needs of your disability?

  5. What are your strengths? I have a “helicopter” brain I can connect the dots easily I connect well with patients, I’m a good listener What are your weakness? I have poor hand writing, documenting is difficult Working in the OR would be difficult. Keeping count of surgical instruments and sponges is hard. Strengths Weakness

  6. Adapting the Health Care Environment • What additional needs for your work environment do you have? • What things are you bringing to the environment to help yourself? • What do you need your employer to provide?

  7. Self-advocacy • Step 1: Introducing Yourself • Step 2: Explaining your Disability • Step 3: Strengths vs. Weaknesses • Step 4: Adaptations and accommodations • Step 5: Expectations and Accomplishments

  8. Clinical/ Co-op Experiences • Challenges and difficulties • Frustrations • Rewards

  9. How and When to Ask for Help • Ask politely “Please and Thank You” • “I” “Me” and “You” statements • Ask for help after you’ve tried at least once with no success • Ask for help when you’re able to accomplish something, but need help to accomplish it faster due to a deadline.

  10. Thank you!!!

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