If a person cannot read or write cursive, are they "functionally illiterate?"

[ThreeNoSeep]

110. When the debate opponent puts words in your mouth or makes assumptions about your past

There are any number of solutions to handle the situations you mentioned (Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Google Translate, reaching out to a cursive reader on staff, etc.) The occasional need to read cursive certainly does not mean an RN should not have their certification or that a medical technician is functionally illiterate.

By the way, functional illiteracy is a phrase that has specific parameters, and the inability to read/write in an archaic script or spout pedantic Latin words is not one of them, despite your misuse of the term. Knowledge and use of the meanings of words is a better indication of functional literacy.

If you are justified in your contempt for those who do not read nor write cursive then you should try to have the hospital switch all the warning signs to handwritten cursive and Latin. (cough - reductio ad absurdum cough-cough!)