‘Covid-19 has shone a light on the psychological stresses of nurses’ work’

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15 April, 2021 By Tom Sandford

For decades and until relatively recently, musculoskeletal disorders have been the principal cause of nurses’ sickness absence in the UK. I trained as a nurse in the era that first recognised the damage being done to nurses’ health and wellbeing by back injuries. From our…