Hi,my name is Elisa. I lost my leg to cancer when I was 9. When I was 34 I was accepted into the BSN program here. Two weeks into it, I was taken aside and questioned as to what kind of nurse I thought I could be. They wanted me to do a functional capacity evaluation to determine if I was able to go thru nursing school. After about an hour and a half of being badgered by a PT an OT and a nursing instructor, I told them I would be happy to undergo any test that all the 2 legged students would have to do. That ended it, I graduated, passed boards, and was offered a job on the orthopedic unit of the local hospital.
I have had one leg for 29 years....I know what I can do, they had to be shown.