Disability Discrimination: Nurse Not Certified For Position, Has No Discrimination Claim

Legal Eagle Eye Newsletter for the Nursing Profession

July 1997 

   Quick Summary: It is not disability discrimination claim to deny a disabled nurse a position for which a specific clinical certification is required, if the disabled nurse does not have the certification, according to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.  Kocsis vs. Care, 97 F. 3d 876 (6th Cir., 1996).