Interview with Suzanne Smeltzer, author of the April research article, “Interactions of People with Disabilities and Nursing Staff” and with Lisa Iezzoni and Michael Ogg, authors of “Patient’s Perspective: Hard Lessons from a Long Hospital Stay”

An estimated 62 million adult Americans lived with some type of disability in 2001-2005…”, explains researcher Suzanne Smeltzer in her introduction. And many of these people end up in hospitals and often feel unsafe. AJN’s editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy talks with author Smeltzer about her research and is joined by the authors (both of whom have disabilities from multiple sclerosis) of a companion piece who discuss their experiences.