Giving Nurses a Lift
KOMU.com
One Missouri legislator wants to save nurses' backs with a device that could give patient treatment a lift.
Representative
Steve Hodges weighs more than 330 pounds and he'll be the first to tell
you how hard it is for nurses to move him from one bed to another.
"There's a 28-year-old female I know that was helping to turn a 400
pound patient and injured her back and had to have two surgeries, two
very painful surgeries," said SEIU Nurse Alliance of Missouri
member Patty Cyr of SEIU.
"I would much rather have a secure piece of equipment handling my
loved ones," said East Prairie Democratic Representative Steve
Hodges. "Not that I don't trust human handling, but this is just a
better deal."
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