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Intern Injury Restriction

Erin Fogarty Posts: 18 12/20/2022	Erin Fogarty Posts: 18 Hi Everyone, Just wanted to gather some ideas of how to deal with an intern that is on Injury restriction. I have an intern currently who will have to be in a cast and splint causing them to be unable to participate in at least the first half of rotation #2 due to not being able to work with restrictions. I have had interns in the past who for a week or two couldn't be on a job site for one reason or another and we were able to make things work, but 6 weeks off of a rotation is a lot of time. I am reaching out to departments to see if there is any clerical work any of our departments may need, but I figured I would ask if anyone else has had a similar situation and how they handled it. Thanks!
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Meaghan Jones Posts: 20 1/5/2023	Meaghan Jones Posts: 20 Hi Erin, We just had an intern who required surgery and had 6 weeks of restricted work, which then had to be restricted even further due to complications. We found it somewhat challenging to find enough work that fit her skills and interests mid-internship. If we didn't have someone in medical records already, we might have gone there. In our hospital there are a ton of patient forms that need to be sorted to Terminal Digit, bundled and date stamped. There are some computer look ups that can be layered in. Not sure if your facility has similar work or not. For the young women in question, she ended up going to our Women's hospital and working in the area for new moms. She folded linens, sorted donations (actually developed a new system of organization and worked with hospital staff to secure new furniture for it!) , and created various patient packages and take home kits for the new moms, then stocked all four clean rooms where they 'live'. Most of this work could be done from a seated position and pace/productivity was not a priority. Those may not be issues in your situation, but they were for her. Best of luck to you! Hope you find something they are happy with. Meaghan Erin Fogarty wrote: Hi Everyone, Just wanted to gather some ideas of how to deal with an intern that is on Injury restriction. I have an intern currently who will have to be in a cast and splint causing them to be unable to participate in at least the first half of rotation #2 due to not being able to work with restrictions. I have had interns in the past who for a week or two couldn't be on a job site for one reason or another and we were able to make things work, but 6 weeks off of a rotation is a lot of time. I am reaching out to departments to see if there is any clerical work any of our departments may need, but I figured I would ask if anyone else has had a similar situation and how they handled it. Thanks!
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Erin Fogarty Posts: 18 1/9/2023	Erin Fogarty Posts: 18 Thanks Meaghan! Those sound like great options and kind of along the lines of what I was thinking.
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Christine Gustke Posts: 4 2/1/2023	Christine Gustke Posts: 4 We have had this come up in the past as well as this year. As previously mentioned we used in house clerical/technology work to meet some needs HR and some other departments had. In addition, we reached out to our school district to see if there was anything available that would be appropriate. That said we are fortunate to have our district office close to our host business. There may be something within your district, if you are a school program, to meet the needs.
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