Vandenberg v. State, Department of Health & Social Services

OPINION

FABE, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

After a work-related injury left a nurse with a permanent partial impairment, she applied for reemployment benefits. The re habilitation specialist assigned to her case used two job descriptions to describe one of the nurse's former jobs because the specialist did not think that a single job description adequately described that former job. The Alaska Workers' Compensation Board decided that only one job description was needed and that the nurse retained the physical capacity to perform the functions of that job description; it therefore denied her…