Returning to work after 2 yrs on worker’s comp
Friday, December 29th, 2006Nursing has its own hazards and physical injury is one of them.
How would you make a come back after you get hurt while trying to help lift a 400 lb patient and have to leave for 2 years on worker’s comp ? The road back to work would not be easy.
Here is the story of one nurse who had to go through a lot to regain what she had lost:
“I am an LPN 6 to 8mos from being an RN. I have been a nurse for 7yrs all in LTC for geriatrics or multiply handicapped. My last job I had just started it was in geriatrics and I was 87 days in. I was severly injured assisting to lift a 400+# resident. We only had two lifts in the 100 bed facility both outdated. Anyway I recieved a crush/twist injury and was taken to the ER.”
“Of course my PCP wrote me off of work indefinity pending further testing. I was immediatly terminated. They said not fired just not going to keep me since I was still in my 90 days. It ended up being a pretty major injury I have been off on worker comp for 2yrs. In that time I have had two surgeries and will most likely need more. After a long tedious very depressing, dehumanizing court battle I won. I have had the two surgeries and intense physical therapy. While I have been off I continued with my RN classes and am now 4 classes away.”
