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Subjective and Objective Categorization of Chronic Low Back Pain in Professional Nurses Introduction Nursing is a challenging profession and staff nurses are entrusted with the responsibility of extending and safe and quality healthcare. Safe and quality healthcare is essential for ensuring positive health outcomes in patients. Hence, nurses should be physically, physiologically and psychologically competent for ensuring safe and quality healthcare services. Chronic low back pain has been recognized as one of the major factors that limits the professional competence of staff nurses. The presence of CLBP or LBP decreases the productivity and physical competence of staff nurses. Hence, the present study would be conducted to objectively categorize CLBP or LBP amongst nursing professionals. Literature Review The literature review for the proposed research was based on keyword search strategy. The keywords were linked through Boolean connectors for selecting the appropriate articles. The keywords and the Boolean connectors that were used are “Chronic Low back Pain” OR “Neuropathic Pain” OR “Nociceptive Pain” AND “Subjective categorization” OR “Objective Categorization” AND “Nurses” OR “Women”. The keywords were used to visit different clinical and nursing databases. These databases were “OVID online” “Medline Search” “Pubmed Central” “Cochrane database” and “Google Scholar”. The literature review indicated different articles related to chronic low back pain in nurses. However, no studies categorized chronic low back pain in nurses either subjectively or objectively. These findings provided the guiding framework for the proposed
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