Healthcare workers continue to rank high on injured-on-the-job study
Nurses won’t be surprised to hear another study that finds health care workers suffer more injuries than in any other sector in the United States. Nurses know friends and colleagues who have lost work days and income to injuries, some who even had to give up their career of bedside nursing. The corporate focus on the bottom-line puts more weight on our shoulders, literally, as we are told to “make do” without enough hands or resources to move a patient or perform a procedure.
The proof is in the numbers. In 2011, injuries to healthcare workers went up 6 percent while construction and agriculture-related injuries actually went down.
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