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Thursday, December 10, 2009

The snow has stopped but the wind chill is minus 20 today in southeastern Wisconsin!
As the cold settles into the landscape I found a startling statistic..

Nurses are lifting up to thousands of pounds every day. How many 150 pound patients does one nurse lift in one day? Lifting patients up in bed, transfers from bed to wheelchair, wheelchair to bed, et cetera, is estimated at 1.8 tons per day.


World Champions at lifting!

With all that weight going up and down, unsteady load balance, injuries are going to happen. All I can say is..they need the SDS medical Vest and soon..
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