Keeping our Nurses Healthy: Preventing Back Sprains and Strains
Posted on by Geoff Wolfe, CEAS III, CFSC
Nursing is a tough, physically demanding job and the data proves it. There were over 33,000 soft tissue injuries sustained by nursing professionals in 2013. The average number of days lost was 8. For those counting, that’s a total of 264,000 days of lost time, valuable time, spent inactive and unable to perform.
