Consultation with Key Organisations who affect the Return to Work of Injured and/or Ill Nurses
The ANF (Victorian Branch) Nurses Return to Work in Hospitals Project has sought to understand the perceptions of key stakeholders regarding the barriers to and factors for successful return to work.
The key organisations interviewed focused on their areas of particular concern with components of return to work, rather than with return to work overall.
Consultation with the key organisations identified the need for:
- clear guidance on roles in return to work of key organisations
- recognition that return to work is one part of the rehabilitative process for injured and/or ill nurses
- communication and alignment of return to work expectations and outcomes for the benefit of the injured and/or ill nurse
- education on consequences of injury and/or illness
- education of employers and management on their roles and responsibilities for return to work
- action based on nurses' good ideas about what they can and cannot do in regard to the management of their injury and/or illness and in being involved with the development of their return to work program.
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