| Summary: | Background: the rehabilitation nurses are decisive to the promotion of accessibility trough architectural barriers elimination, which promotes the reintegration of people 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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