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Are there any other disabled nurses out there? I have become disabled r/t back problems this past year. NO help even after two back surgeries. I feel so isolated because the people that I had for friends at the LTC where I worked do not have the time to call and talk to me. I really miss nursing. I had worked in nursing for 26 years and loved working in my job as MDS coordinator. However, due to my backpain and meds I am on, my doctors told me that I would be unable to work in nursing or anywhere else for that matter. Would love to hear how others with this problem are handling this.

Specializes in icu, er, transplant, case management, ps.
Thank you very much for sharing. I have been given the run around for the past nine months. I finally received a wheelchair recently, however the wc are trying everything to prevent me from getting the care that I need and my lawyer is trying but it just seems to be an endless battle.

I have a very good physician, however they are denying me acess, even though I have been certified disabled and unable to carry out the love of my life. I can no longer drive and I was a flight and ER nurse amounst other things.

Appointments have been made and the carrier has not forwarded my files to the appropriate people. Is there anything that I can do.

All help would be greatly appreciated. Once again thank you.:smiley_ab

I believe the insurance company has forty-five days to comply with the request for copies of their files. And a lot of them wait until the forty-fifth day to send them out. I need a second opinion, at their insistence, following a failed percutanous discectomy. We had a hearing and the Judge gave them up til the end of November to get me seen or I could have the surgery. They waited until a week before their time was up. I got the second opinion and the doctor doing it,, wanted to know why I hadn't had the surgery yet. I told him to ask the insurance company, which he did. And I got cleared for it a short time later.

Woody:balloons:

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Specializes in ER,Trauma, ICU, Flight, Hme Hlth, CCath.

Is there anyone out there that can help me. I have been battling with workers compensation for the past nine months to get the basic of medical care for an injury I received while working.

At this point in time I am wheelchair bound and unable to get any assistance past a case manager that has done nothing for me. He was able to go on vacation while my file sat on his desk.

In my career I have done everything and anything to ensure that patients got the care they required, no questions. That was my job and I did what I could to make sure that no one had to suffer or be refused on any basis what so ever.

Now I find the shoe is on the other foot and I feel very helpless.

No one and especially not the case manager I have works for me.

As I have been told they have a quota and the physicians we are sent to have guidelines.

Does anyone have any suggestions on a complaint route or if it is even possible because I am disgusted with what is happening to me, but more importantly do not want to see it continue happening to other health care professionals.

All suggestions will be looked into as I really am trying to find a way to be heard, sooner rather than later.

Thank you in advance.

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Specializes in NICU.
With the meds I am on for pain control and the fact that I cannot sit for longer than 20 minutes without severe pain, there is no job that I can do. Against regs for me to work taking the pain meds I have to take for pain control and they do not completely relieve the pain. I am in pain constantly.

Have you tried to apply for SSD? (Social Security disability). I am in the process of applying. I have severe arthritis and a vestibular loss. Have had both knees replaced and one ankle fused. Am sensitive to loud noises...even clapping or people cheering on TV bothers me. I had worked at a pediatric hospital for 34 1/2 years. was in the NICU for 30 years.

They terminated me in Dec. 2010 b/c of my disability. Long story. I've postd about it elsewhere. Very upsetting to me b/c after over 34 years, I did not even get a Thank You from anyone in Administration, or a chance to say goodbye to my fellow staff members and doctors...many of whom I'd known for over 30 years.

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