Nurses / Nursing Home Workers Work Accidents can occur either as a specific injury or a cumulative trauma injury.
What is a Specific Injury?
A specific injury is an injury that happens on a specific day and due to a specific event, such as a slip and fall injury or an injury sustained while restraining a difficult patient.
What is a Cumulative Trauma Injury?
A cumulative trauma injury is an injury that happens over time as a result of performing your regular work duties or being constantly exposed to a condition while working.
Job Duties of Nurses / Nursing Home Workers
Assessing patients, taking vital signs, doing physical exams, asking important health questions, collaborating with doctors, administering medications, coordinating patient care, answering patients’ questions, setting up and maintaining IVs, drawing labs, assisting with diagnostic testing, educating patients, family members, and caregivers on illnesses, diagnoses, and post discharge care, etc.
Even if your job title is not “nurse” or “nursing home worker”, if you perform the same or similar job duties in your line of work, you are exposed to sustaining specific or cumulative trauma injuries on the job.
How Do I Know if I Need an Attorney/Lawyer?
Having an attorney/lawyer is not required, but if you want to get the best treatment, the most benefits and compensation possible, and with the least amount of stress, then hiring an attorney/lawyer is definitely a good idea. However, like all things in life, not everything is created equally.
The attorneys at MeticuLaw have over 10 years of experience representing nurses / nursing home workers in workers’ compensation / work injury claims. We will guide you through the legal process seamlessly and explain everything thoroughly to you on the way. If you’re an administrative assistant and had a work accident / work injury, call MeticuLaw at (626) 768-9959 today to find out how we can help you.
How Do I Know if My Injury Qualifies For A Case?
You don’t! That is the beauty of the workers’ compensation system. Most employees are not doctors who are specially trained to evaluate work accidents / work injuries. Even doctors often require several examinations and diagnostic testing to make a proper diagnosis. That is why, no matter how small or large your complaints are, it is essential that you timely file a workers’ compensation claim. MeticuLaw will help you file your claim, open your claim with the insurance carrier, get evaluated and treated by the best possible doctors, and get you the most benefits and compensation you deserve. Call MeticuLaw at (626) 768-9959 today to find out how we can help you!