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Nurses say they’re breaking their backs caring for Florida’s sick. About a hundred nurses gathered at the Capitol today, to support the Safe Lifting Act. Representative Ronald Brise helped demonstrate a lifting chair that allows nurses to easily move patients. The Safe Lifting Act would require hospitals to us machines like the lifting chair of come up with other plans to help nurses move patients. SEIU Health Care President Martha Baker said some nurses don’t have any other options, but to move patients by themselves.

“In the ICU I work in we have to turn them every two hours. If I don’t have help I’m going to do it because I want the patient to be turned and to not get bed sores. And we’ll turn a two or 300 pound person, that’s not a dead lift, but that’s lifting way more than 50 pounds,” said Baker.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, nurses suffer more back injuries than people in any other profession.