Nurses and Occupational injuries

Occupational injuries are common to all professions and nursing personnel is no exception. Reports from a long term care setting for nursing personnel show that there are various risks in this profession, but most common ones are injuries due to lifting and those that are related to the process of delivering direct patient care.

Within nursing personnel aides, orderlies and attendants rank highest with most cases of workplace injuries and illness. The injuries involve disabling back disorders, musculoskeletal injuries and similar.

Differences in training and work duties are some of the reasons for this. For example, aides have responsibility for most physical activities when taking care of the patients (bathing, bed making, toileting and such) and this straightforwardly increases the risk of injuries.

It is therefore crucial to evaluate work-related injuries and identify risk profiles for nurses, aides and other nursing personnel. It is particularly important to provide safe environment for those workers whose duties involve physical activities so that the injury risk is deduced to absolute minimum.

If you, however, are a victim of an accident at work, please do not hesitate to contact Thompsons No Win No Fee specialists on 0800 0891331 or complete the compensation claim form below and we will advise you on your first steps to receiving the compensation that you and your family deserve.

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