Abstract

Nursing is a high risk profession for injury. A Canadian survey reports many nurses are in poor physical and emotional health; they sustain more musculoskeletal and violence related injuries than other occupational groups. In Ontario, an injury management approach called Early Return to Work (RTW) requires injured workers, including nurses, to go back to work before full recovery. The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board cite this approach as beneficial to both the employer and employee. This study uses an institutional ethnographic approach to examine critically the RTW process from the standpoint of injured registered nurses. Through interviews and mapping activities with nurses, other health professionals and managers, a rendering of the social organization of hospital injury management emerges.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: NR77771; ProQuest document ID: 919075433. The author still retains copyright.

Laurie Clune

Author Details

Laurie Clune, PhD, MEd, BScN, BA, RN

Sigma Membership

Phi Gamma (Virtual)

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Other

Research Approach

Quantitative Research

Keywords:

Workplace Safety, Injuries on the Job, Nursing Management

Advisor

Sioban Nelson

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

University of Toronto

Degree Year

2011

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Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2019-11-20

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