Restrictions

[kemnursesd]

Question:  If a doctor has the following restriction:  "stand/walk/sit no more than 40 cumulative minutes per hour" - then are you supposed to be laying down for the 20 minutes?  The employee has a lumbar strain as a diagnosis.  

[lcmills, ADN, BSN, MSN]

I would ask for clarification. Do you use a true Occupational Health physician? I know when I send employees to urgent care or the ER they write for some crazy restrictions then I get the Occupational Health physician to see and rewrite restrictions. 

[sleepwalker, MSN, NP]

On 8/23/2022 at 7:40 PM, kemnursesd said:

Question:  If a doctor has the following restriction:  "stand/walk/sit no more than 40 cumulative minutes per hour" - then are you supposed to be laying down for the 20 minutes?  The employee has a lumbar strain as a diagnosis.  

If you have to guess at what it's saying it needs to be clarified