- Title
- Return-to-work coordinators' resourcefulness and the provision of suitable duties for nurses with injuries
- Creator
- James, Carole; Southgate, Erica; Kable, Ashley; Rivett, Darren A.; Guest, Maya; Bohatko-Naismith, Joanna
- Relation
- Work Vol. 48, Issue 4, p. 557-566
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/WOR-141915
- Publisher
- IOS Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Background: There is little health specific literature on returning nurses with injuries to work despite the high incidence of injuries and the workforce shortages of these professionals. Objective: To identify enabling factors and barriers to return-to-work for nurses with injuries from the perspective of return-to-work coordinators. Participants: Workplace return-to-workcoordinators employed in a health or disability facility who had worked on a rehabilitation case with a nurse with injuries in the past 12 months in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Method: Five focus groups were conducted with 25 return-to-work coordinators from 14 different organisations, representing different health sectors (aged, disability, public and private hospital and community health) in metropolitan and rural areas of NSW, Australia. Results: This study reports findings specifically relating to the provision of suitable duties for nurses with injuries. Four key themes were identified: suitable duties; supernumerary positions; nurse specialisation and tailoring of return-to-work plans. Conclusions: This study identified that return-to-work coordinators were resourceful and innovative in their approach to the provision of suitable duties for nurses with injuries and highlighted the importance of including clinical duties in any return-to-work program and of tailoring the return-to-work to the nurses' work and personal circumstances.
- Subject
- suitable duties; workplace based return-to-work; health sector; qualitative
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1299635
- Identifier
- uon:19903
- Identifier
- ISSN:1051-9815
- Language
- eng
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