heavy lifting

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im going to be entering the program this fall, and i was wondering how much lifting nurses have to do in comparison to CNAs? I worked as a CNA at a LTC and it was all lifting every patient, is this how it is at a hospital as a nurse?

Specializes in LTC.
I did a travel assignment at a hospital in Oklahoma that actually had a no lift policy. The only problem was none of the nurses had quite figured out how to implement it. We decided it was just the hosp's way of getting out of paying worker's comp on back, shoulder and knee injuries since you could only get them by disobeying a hospital policy.

We have a no lift policy at my 320 bed LTC facility, as does most LTC facilities in my area. We have ceiling track passive mechanical lifts installed in most rooms, and also make heavy use of active lifts and low friction transfer sheets, sliders and rolls.

Our policy is that if a patient cannot perform a transfer with only minimal elbow guidance of staff, they become a lift of some sort, whether passive or active if they can still weight bear.

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Specializes in icu/er.

me as well as some of my male coworkers our pulled out the unit/er to lift patients all the time you know i don't mind helping but 4-5 times a night gets to be a pain, but then i made a deal with the females on the floors, that they would come a start all my female foley caths and now i don't mind as much...

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Specializes in rehab, ortho, cardiac.

ummm one thing about male nurses is that male nurses also work as a security guard and a forklift aside from being a nurse.

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lifting a patient, due to the patient's inability to position themselves is the responsibility all. I personally will call upon any pair of hands available, resp.therapist, physicians, other nurses, yes I even used a maintenance guy once. Never lift alone, the hospital has purchased lift devices and if don't use them or get assistance. Your suit for disability can be altered, based on your own negligence.

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If you guys don't think you are jeapordizing your chiropractic health in your lower back each lift, you are mistaken. If you don't get higher pay for doing what 3 average females nurses do, then you are not helping anyone including yourself.

Wake up!

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Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.

I always have my back support on

I always get help

I always wear copper

I always wear magnets

I always wear my crystal also

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.
I always have my back support on

I always get help

I always wear copper

I always wear magnets

I always wear my crystal also

Drummed into us from day one on the clinical floors was proper body mechanics, and getting help.

I don't use the magnets, but I do have a copper/crystal angel (a gift from my mom) on my ID. No problems yet, knock wood!

What does the magnet do for you?

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Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.
Drummed into us from day one on the clinical floors was proper body mechanics, and getting help.

I don't use the magnets, but I do have a copper/crystal angel (a gift from my mom) on my ID. No problems yet, knock wood!

What does the magnet do for you?

They realign the electrical energy of your being

They absorb negative ion interference and make it positive, highly beneficial. Neurologically and circulation wise. They ease chronic pain symptoms without becoming addicted to drug use. They are good for your golf swing, and aids in the other swing also.

I will fight before I shed my magnets

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They realign the electrical energy of your being

They absorb negative ion interference and make it positive, highly beneficial. Neurologically and circulation wise. They ease chronic pain symptoms without becoming addicted to drug use. They are good for your golf swing, and aids in the other swing also.

I will fight before I shed my magnets

That is interesting. Positive ions are the harmful ions that cause static, esd damage, and negative physiological effects of energy forms: electricity, ultrasonic sound energy, infrasonic sound energy, ...

But possibly, magnetics display different characteristics, although most energy forms share tendencies. Try wearing 100% polyester or satin clothes, especially sox where ultrasonic energy forms are in return-air circulation: swelling ankles anyone? Cotton is death, as are metal and wood. Of course I don't want to give away any mental health, CIA, or FBI secrets of legalized physiological terrorism :devil:

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Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.
That is interesting. Positive ions are the harmful ions that cause static, esd damage, and negative physiological effects of energy forms: electricity, ultrasonic sound energy, infrasonic sound energy, ...

But possibly, magnetics display different characteristics, although most energy forms share tendencies. Try wearing 100% polyester or satin clothes, especially sox where ultrasonic energy forms are in return-air circulation: swelling ankles anyone? Cotton is death, as are metal and wood. Of course I don't want to give away any mental health, CIA, or FBI secrets of legalized physiological terrorism :devil:

I havent worn polyester since my Disco Days , Thank God those are past

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update:

so im in my second semester of nursing skool now, i gotta say its soooo easy!!!!! :)

however, i have YET to see any nurse during my clinicals do any type of "cna" lifting

and i have had clinical on a tele unit as well as a med surg unit

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update:

so im in my second semester of nursing skool now, i gotta say its soooo easy!!!!! :)

however, i have YET to see any nurse during my clinicals do any type of "cna" lifting

and i have had clinical on a tele unit as well as a med surg unit

What is "cna" lifting? Scooping and extracting the feces out before you clean the folds in the skin, lol? :pumpiron:

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