AnonymousEMT
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Hi all, I have a very irritating scenario here involving lifting in general. This has happened to me on a few occasions... mainly one where it was just myself and another emt, a female, we had to lift a fat patient off the hospital bed and onto our stretcher. So we got everything aligned, set up, and ready to move the patient. I was on the side of the stretcher, she was on the side of the patient bed. She told me to pull with "all my might" to my side (the stretcher side), I didn't feel confident that I could take all that weight so I didn't think "all my might" would make a friggin difference, I told her maybe we should call for an extra person a nurse or someone, she was like no we can do it. And so we pulled, the patient ended up right in between the bed and stretcher, mind you the bed and stretcher were still close together, but if either were to move she would have fell on the floor in between.
My main point is what the heck is "all my might" consist of? Perhaps everyone has their own lifting prefs., just because you have a EMT certificate, that you gives you super powers to lift any patient of any size regardless of the proper lifting technique? To anyone here who agrees to this, are you really kidding me?
There have been quite a few instances that were similar to this one... actually one involving a patient heavy but not fat like the one mentioned above. We were transferring a patient from the stretcher onto the new bed at destination - I was on the bed side, partner was on stretcher side, the bed was a bit wide as usual so it was more of a stretch for me to pull no matter what the heck i did. The nurse in the room had the nerve to say "I think you need more spinach" and laughed, I'll show her some spinach with a good knock in the face!
Mind you, I'm not a skinny muscleless dude like Shia Lebouf nor am I a diesel built dude like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sly stallone, I'm more like in between ala Nicholas Cage, guys like that. My point is why the **** do people think just because you are an emt you can lift anyone without any obstacles?
My main point is what the heck is "all my might" consist of? Perhaps everyone has their own lifting prefs., just because you have a EMT certificate, that you gives you super powers to lift any patient of any size regardless of the proper lifting technique? To anyone here who agrees to this, are you really kidding me?
There have been quite a few instances that were similar to this one... actually one involving a patient heavy but not fat like the one mentioned above. We were transferring a patient from the stretcher onto the new bed at destination - I was on the bed side, partner was on stretcher side, the bed was a bit wide as usual so it was more of a stretch for me to pull no matter what the heck i did. The nurse in the room had the nerve to say "I think you need more spinach" and laughed, I'll show her some spinach with a good knock in the face!
Mind you, I'm not a skinny muscleless dude like Shia Lebouf nor am I a diesel built dude like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sly stallone, I'm more like in between ala Nicholas Cage, guys like that. My point is why the **** do people think just because you are an emt you can lift anyone without any obstacles?