[Understanding disability, a first act of care].
One of the ways of taking care of another person consists in banishing prejudices. With disabled patients, nurses must avoid empathy which would lead them to consider the disability from their personal point of view. Disability obliges caregivers to move away from their usual understanding of the body, sensations, perceptions and imagination. Rather than putting oneself in the place of the disabled person it is a question of understanding the difference.