Should Emergency Nursing be part of the Critical Care Nursing Specialty on this site?

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I don't think so because if you look under the specialty tab, you see 5 forums:
CCU - (Coronary/Cardiac)
MICU and SICU
NICU - Neonatal (29 Viewing)
Neuro Intensive Care (10 Viewing)
PICU (Pediatric) (3 Viewing)

I was hoping to see that Emergency Nursing could be the 6th forum

The ER forum would be a lot easier to reach and find if it were put under the CC specialty tab than it is now, (being under the nursing specialty tab).

(Also, as a side note, I think that a trauma nursing forum should be added as a critical care specialty-but, that's just my opinion---I just think that Emergency and Trauma Nurses [also, Burn & Transport] are being short-changed in people's minds as to the skills performed and the acuity levels that must be managed.)

I did this more to find out what others outside of the ED think about what emergency nurses do and how others, outside of the ER, view emergency nursing.

You bring up a good point that not all that enter the ER are critical; but, they usually go straight to fast track and bypass the main ED. You never know what will come through that door and must be prepared, in a split second, to handle anything. This certainly requires critical care skills, and more... Just yesterday, in addition to 5 other patients, I had a severe lower GI bleed (BP unstable, tetering on hypovolemic shock) that was being held until surgery was available, while trying to manage another patient in resp. distress and pending septic shock, needing intubation the moment I finished report-eventually getting transduced, on a levo & insulin drip. I had 7 patients at a single point in time, not one with a minor problem. ICU was full, so in addition to the 2 critical patients (normal load for the ICU nurse) I had the others to care for. I do think that I demonstrated critical care ++++ nursing.

I originally didn't have plans to present the results to Brian-what do you think about doing that?