Background:

Accessibility is a crucial element in the quality of life of disabled people, being indispensable for the exercise of their rights. Its effectiveness involves a multidisciplinary team, which should include the rehabilitation nurse, as it is the one responsible to empower the disabled person for the reintegration and exercise of citizenship.

Objectives:

To reflect on the rights of persons with disabilities; to understand the intervention of the specialist nurse in rehabilitation nursing in promoting accessibility and social inclusion.

Main topics under analysis:

legislation and plans to promote accessibility and social inclusion; and the intervention of the specialist nurse in rehabilitation nurse in the context of these problems.

Conclusion:

Accessibility conditions constitute one of the discriminatory factors for disabled people. Thus, the rehabilitation nurse in parallel with the competent authorities should face this problem as an urgent opportunity for the promotion of a change.

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