Days Away from Work: Healthcare workers and nursing assistants experience musculoskeletal disorders at rates more than five times the average for all industries, historically taking a median of 7 to 21 days away from work per incident. [1, 2]
Michelle A. Dressner, and Samuel P. Kissinger, “Occupational injuries and illnesses among registered nurses,” Monthly Labor Review, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 2018, https://doi.org/10.21916/mlr.2018.27
Annual Case Load: Registered nurses and nursing staff experience more than 35,000 back and musculoskeletal injuries on the job annually that are severe enough to require time off from work. [1]
Nurses and Workplace Injuries – Care for the Caregivers
Economic Impact: The direct and indirect costs associated strictly with back injuries across the healthcare industry are estimated to be as high as $20 billion annually. [1]
Healthcare – Safe Patient Handling | Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Patient-handling injuries (boosting, repositioning, lifting, transferring patients) are among the most common and expensive nursing injuries. In one study of healthcare facilities, patient-handling claims accounted for 34.4% of all medical workers’ compensation costs.
J Occup Environ Med 2020 Oct 15;62(12):e738–e747 Luis F Pieretti 1, Robert A Sylvester 1, Karl V Siegfried 1
OSHA reported an average hospital workers’ compensation claim cost of approximately $15,860 per injury claim.
https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/1.1_Data_highlights_508.pdf
More recent workplace injury analyses estimate the average medically consulted workplace injury at roughly $43,000 per case when medical costs, wage replacement, and related expenses are included. Work Injury Costs – Injury Facts
2.5 million with HAPI’s. =. HCA Journal of Medicine 2024 OCT 1;5(5):577-586
Nicki Roderman, Shandlie Wilcox, Andrew Beal
26.8 billion Annual Cost of non reimbursed HAPI’s
International Wound Journal 2019 Jan 28;16(3):634-640
William V Padula, Benjo a Delarmente
17,000 Pressure injury Lawsuits filed every year
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals
http://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressureulcer/tool/pu1.html