Before lunch, an Atlantic County school nurse can steady a faint teenager, crouch beside a sick kindergartner, help a child transfer from a wheelchair, and spend the next hour charting. Across Cape May, Camden, and Mercer County schools, the students change, but the physical cycle repeats. Over time, those movements can leave a nurse with a throbbing back, aching knees, or the telltale numbness of carpal tunnel syndrome. Wrist...
Read MoreAt dawn on Black Horse Pike, you take your place beside the cones while traffic begins to thicken. By lunch, your heels burn. At quitting time, the ache has climbed through your knees into your lower back, yet no fall, impact, or equipment failure marks its arrival. The next morning brings a fresh lane closure, more hard pavement, and another shift your body must absorb. Weeks become seasons. Pain...
Read MoreA patient starts to fall, but a nurse catches them before they hit the floor. Alarms don’t sound, and the nurse continues as usual. Across hospitals, nursing homes, and home-care visits in Atlantic, Cape May, Camden, and Mercer counties, years of saves, boosts, turns, and transfers can strain muscles and grind down spinal discs. By the time a nurse seeks a workers’ compensation back injury settlement, the pain may...
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