Justin Barrows, Alonzo Blackwell, Brandon Lawrence and Colton Duncan, from left, members of Erlanger’s “lift team,” move patient Monica O’Connell from her bed to a chair. O’Connell recently suffered multiple hip fractures in an automobile accident.
David CookPretend you’re a nurse at Erlanger.
A teeny-tiny, size 2 nurse. The heart of Florence, but the body of a nightingale.
And your patient weighs 450 pounds. And you need him to get from his hospital bed to the chair.
How do you move him?
Or say there’s a 6’8″ man who’s broken one leg, fractured two arms and cracked his neck. Guy weighs 300. And he’s detoxing, which makes him full of spit and vinegar, ready to fight?