Background:

the rehabilitation nurses are decisive to the promotion of accessibility trough architectural barriers elimination, which promotes the reintegration of persons with reduced mobility.

Objectives:

to understand nurses’ concernment about the elimination of architectural barriers.

Methodology:

a quantitative, descriptive, exploratory study using an accidental non-probabilistic snowball sampling method, composed of 56 nurses. For data collection, an ad hoc self-administered questionnaire was applied, using Google forms, in November 2016.

Results:

60.7% of nurses don’t know whom to adress to eliminate barriers and 58.9% did not implement any intervention in that sense. Verified significant statistical differences that favor the rehabilitation nurses concerning their knowledge about: specific legislation about acessibility (p=0.000) and whom to adress to request the elimination of architectural barriers in the community (p=0.024).

Conclusion:

the accessibility and the elimination of architectural barriers should be a part of the daily pratice of nurses.

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