Marie, And have you never worked with nurses who have normal hearing who have missed important symptoms? Sorry, but stereotyping is never a workable answer. There ARE things that people with disabilities cannot do. But determining what those things are must be on the basis of individual skills and abilities, not on flat out rejection of an entire class of individuals. Keep in mind, too, that you are talking about the training of students for a potential array of jobs that might present themselves upon completion of the program. You don't get to say, "because this student who is blind (or deaf, or ???) would not be able to perform in THIS (one) situation, we will not allow him/her to learn what our field is about." Dr. Jane Jarrow