ABSTRACT
Disabled nurses are generally ushered out the door and have traditionally just “gone away.” The mention of intolerance of injured and ill nurses in the literature is curious because it seems that if rejection of nurses with infirmities has been recognized, then the nursing community should have responded to the needs of injured and ill nurses. There should be enough nurses to effect change. Healthcare workers represent the largest female workforce in the country and also suffer more disabling injuries than any other population of working women. These injured women have traditionally more or less accepted disability as a risk associated with work requiring the physical lifting and moving of human beings.
