Anyone work with NPs who deal with actual emergencies?

[rse3]

I'm very interested in doing an Emergency/Acute Care NP program, and I'm wondering how many of you work with NPs who see real emergencies. In our ED, the NPs mostly see things like earaches, kidney stones, psych pts, etc. I'm not belittling their work, and someone has to do it, but I have no interest in doing that every day for the rest of my life, as traumas and critical pts is what makes me love the ED so much.

I've heard that there are EDs where NPs see pts with real emergencies, but I'm just wondering how common they are. Thanks.

[turnforthenurse, MSN, NP]

Our NPs and PAs see mostly level 4 and 5 patients, sometimes level 3 and occasionally level 2 patients. One of our NPs will even see patients in our trauma rooms that are level 2 but they are still consulting with the physician on duty.

[Emergent, RN]

Our ER recently did away with fasttrack, and the midlevels do a variety of pts. They usually don't do traumas. They consult with the doc for the more complex pts.