We allow most employees to return to restricted duty if it is available and only do additional testing on occasion for very complex cases.
Dorothy van Rhijn M.D.
Chief, Employee Health Yale University
Yale Health
55 Lock St.
New Haven, CT. 06520
From: MCOH-EH [mailto:mcoh-eh-bounces@mylist.net]
On Behalf Of Hudson, T. Warner
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 1:36 PM
To: MCOH/EH <mcoh-eh@mylist.net>
Cc: Corrington, Jodie <jodiec@portmed.org>; Black, Patti <pattib@portmed.org>
Subject: Re: [MCOH-EH] Return to Work
We allow anyone injured to return to work within their restrictions if transitional duty is available, in fact we strongly encourage it and help find people work outside of their department. A good example is
that many of our nurse vaccinators at the flu season mass events are nurses on modified duty (we gave >15,000 flu vaccine in about 3 weeks). We generally do not do a functional left test but the providers who set restrictions may use in clinic weighted boxes
to help set or refine lifting limits when indicate and they are not sure at what poundage to set restriction and providers also sometimes use push/pull dynamometers to set restrictions.
Warner
T. Warner Hudson, MD FACOEM, FAAFP
Medical Director, Occupational and Employee Health
UCLA
Health System and Campus
Office 310.825.9146
Fax 310.206.4585
Pager 800.233.7231 ID 27132
E-mail
twhudson@mednet.ucla.edu
Website
www.ohs.uclahealth.org
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On Behalf Of Fowler, Randy
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 10:24 AM
To: 'mcoh-eh@mylist.net'
Cc: Corrington, Jodie; Black, Patti
Subject: [MCOH-EH] Return to Work
We have a hospital policy that states an RN on modified duty cannot return to his/her unit until he/she is released to Full Duty and has passed a Lift Test. I am interested in #1 whether other health care systems have experience with
allowing those injured nurses to be able to return to their own units as long as they are able to work within their accommodations and #2 do other healthcare systems utilize a Lift Test or other functional job evaluation before allowing the injured employee
back to Full Duty?
Thanks, I have enjoyed following the interchange of information on this Occ Med network.
Randall S. Fowler, MD
Medical Director
Portneuf Medical Center
Employee Health & WorkMed
500 S. 11th Suite 500
Pocatello, Idaho 83201
208-239-1940 clinic / 208-239-4506 fax
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