Category: Nursing Injuries
How to Extend Your Nursing Career – Four Experts Share Advice
Posted June 12, 2015
Nursing is a demanding profession, both physically and psychologically. Injuries and burnout are high in nursing. It is important for registered nurses (RNs), certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and orderlies to sometimes focus their care inward and pay attention to their own physical and mental health. We have collected opinions from four nurses on extending your […]
What Needs To Change In Nursing? Four Nurses Speak Up
Posted May 20, 2015
Four nurses start the conversation on what needs to change in their profession and you can continue it. What changes would you like to see? Our work with registered nurses (RNs), certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and orderlies throughout the years has led us to understand that reform is needed in the nursing profession. Health care […]
What Is The Government Doing To Protect Health Care Workers?
Posted May 5, 2015
An epidemic of injuries among nurses has spurred some government officials to consider increasing worker protection through stricter regulation. What laws aim to further health care worker safety in the near future? Nurses, certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and other health care workers suffer approximately 9,000 injuries every day, an injury rate worse than for those […]
When Work Isn’t Safe: Breaking Down The Nursing Injury Epidemic
Posted April 24, 2015
Download this episode: On Libsyn | On Stitcher We’ve been in the disability insurance field for a long time, and there’s one thing we’ve noticed over the years: Nurses get injured – and those injuries often leave them disabled. Is epidemic really the appropriate term to use? It is, because these injuries are more common […]
CNA Injuries Correlate To Level Of Support, Respect At Work
Posted April 23, 2015
Certified nursing assistants (CNAs) suffer injuries at a rate as high as three times the average for U.S. workers. Research shows that injury rates correlate to how well the CNA feels appreciated and supported in his or her work environment. The injury rate in the nursing workforce is a well-known problem. Registered nurses (RNs), CNAs […]
The Uncertain Outlook For Nurses After Injury Or Illness
Posted April 17, 2015
Approximately 9,000 American health care workers suffer a disabling injury each day. A serious injury may profoundly affect your career and finances. What can you do about it? Nursing injuries have reached epidemic proportions. Making matters worse, health care workers often feel ignored or mistreated after suffering a serious injury or illness at work. Many […]
The Nurse Injury Epidemic: Is The Problem Fixable?
Posted April 8, 2015
Statistics show that hospital workers suffer injuries at twice the average for American workers. What is causing the harm and can it be remediated? Our national health care expenditure (NHE) reached $3.46 trillion in 2012. You would think that one of the greatest assets in American health care, nurses, would be sufficiently protected from disabling […]