Injury Preventionist? What's that?

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

Anyone ever worked as an RN Injury Preventionist? It's a non-bedside position that I saw posted on the website of a local hospital, but the job description is so vague that I still don't know what it entails.

Any ideas? Do any of your hospitals staff this position?

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

Y'all don't know either, eh?

[sapphire18]

Lol, really? It sounds made up. I would venture to guess this hospital is sick of paying workers comp claims.

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

Sounds like a partner job to "Infection Preventionist", which is a newfangled way of saying "Infection Control Coordinator". Why the change? Someone with more time to fill than tasks to do got bored.

I imagine it'd be a person whose job it is to look for potentials for injury and eliminate them. In other words: LOTS of paperwork and very little action. And if it's full-time, expect it to be dropped to part-time before it gets deleted altogether.

It happens to be a fraction of what I already do in my job as nurse manager. Not a separate "real" job for anyone.

[tyvin, BSN, RN]

Sounds like they're advertising for an "Occupational Nurse"...look it up.

[martymoose, BSN, RN]

If I am not mistaken, we have someone who does that. They go around and audit to see if the bed alarms are on for the high fall people. Then write us up.

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

Thanks for your replies. I might just call HR and ask them what it is.

[amoLucia]

Sounds like a Risk Mgt/QA/Safety Inspector position. Like an auditor of all injuries, pts and/or staff, to reduce injuries. Like they'd study

incident and accident reports for trends, causes, preventitive measures, etc etc etc.

One thing I'd be concerned about is that with the status of today's unstable nsg environment, would this fancy new title be one to be cut quickly?