[MCOH-EH] Return to Work (TePoel, Debra A)

[Sharon Petersen]

We have a process similar to what Dr. Hudson described. We rely on the treating provider to give us specific lifting restrictions on our return to work document. Depending on the injury or illness type, we will send folks to our occupational therapy clinics for functional capacity testing if the provider has not outlined specific restrictions and we are concerned about it. Otherwise, it is not a routine practice to perform functional testing in order for an employee to RTW.


Sharon Petersen, MHA, RN, COHN/CM
Director, Employee Health Operations
Intermountain Healthcare
sharon.petersen at imail.org




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From: "TePoel, Debra A" <Debra.TePoel at allina.com>
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We pretty much do the same, 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.
We don't do any type of lift test, the criteria for full duty is they must have no restrictions and be able to lift the amount identified in their job description, for example nurses it is 35#.


Deb TePoel, RN, BSN
RN Clinician * Employee Occupational Health  * United Hospital
Phone: 651-241-5637 * Fax: 651-241-7192 * mailto:debra.tepoel at allina.com<https://webmail.allina.com/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>
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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 at mednet.ucla.edu<mailto:twhudson at mednet.ucla.edu>
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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
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