The Workers Compensation Research Institute has identified trust in the work relationship as a critical variable in predicting return-to-work outcomes. At a vulnerable time, injured employees need to be able to trust that their employer is doing right by them and that means extending trust to others, including the treating providers and insurance company or third-party administrator. If that trust doesn't exist at the outset, the injured worker can easily veer off course. One way that employers can earn trust at the time of injury is to give employees ready access to a trusted source of credible information -- a nurse. Year after year, polls by the Gallup® Organization find that Americans trust nurses more than any other profession -- even more than doctors or pharmacists. That makes nurses the ideal professionals to establish a roadmap for success in a workers' comp case...  Read more...