ER nurses wear "biggirl panties"

[TraumaNurseRN]

We are the beasty girls and boys aren't we? We get talked about, yelled to, nasty talk, complained about,kicked, spit on, peed on, pooped, trash talked all through a course of any given day. Even when you are trying to be professional when a nonER nurse gives ya grief because the ICU patient peed enroute to their empty waiting ICU bd with a 2:1 ratio....nice ratio eh?....we take it...until the dam breaks.

People need to wear the dirty scrubs we wear everyday/night we work and then say what they need to say....but do it with a respect for what we do. We are the front door of the hospital yet deal with the back door philosophy. No-one wants to know exactly what goes on in any given day in the life of an ER nurse.....only a few can handle what we handle everyday 24/7...365....

So yank up our big girl panties and feel proud that WE work in the trenches, because others can't....and be proud of it.:smokin:

[GOMERNATOR]

I prefer something in a sensible boxer. (Let's stuff breathe while spending 12 hours in a super-heated trauma room) However, if the big girl panties must be pulled up snugly and worn high and proud, I must. Besides, wouldn't be the first myself or the gang I work have seen a man walk in the ER wearing panties.:rckn:

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[GOMERNATOR]

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scabies!!!!!!!!!

[ScrappyED, BSN, RN]

I love the ER and can't imagine being anywhere else long-term. I have worked on critical care areas and on floors--and I have sometimes worked just as hard, physically and mentally, there as in the ER. I have great respect for many of the nurses who work those units. They have good nurses and bad ones just as we do in the ER but, I have never worked in a hospital area that is as consistently demanding, in all respects, as the ER. I'm sorry if you don't agree but I know for a fact that it takes a certain rare kind of person, who can hold up under the near-constant stress that we undergo on a daily basis and not only keep coming back but actually thrive under these conditions. The ability to keep calm and be able to think and react effectively under the gun is a valuable trait that is both rare in humankind and yet necessary to be successful in the ER. Those of us who work there and love it have every right to be proud and swagger just a little.

In the end though, I try very hard to live by the words on a poster that was on the wall of my nursing school: It is not necessary to put others down to move yourself up the ladder of success in life. I.E. we can pat ourselves on the back, and have a right to!, without downing other nurses in the process. We all need to support one another in becoming better nurses, better people--instead of bickering. Just my two cents...

Here's to all hard-working nurses!!! May the new year bring us all clean, smiling patients, grateful family members, pleasant, intelligent doctors, fast support services and an endless supply of big-girl panties for the days that doesn't happen!

Oh, and no scabies!!:hpygrp:

Scrappy

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[mdoze911nurse]

I, too, am proud to be an ER nurse! My daughter who is on ortho/neuro nurse says she can't understand how I do this....

Well, in turn, I don't see how she does her job. My mom was a long term care nurse AFTER she retired from surgery and the Good Lord knows that I don't know how SHE did her job! What a group!

I am so very glad to be in the ER, I don't think I would EVER work anywhere else! :redbeathe

As a manager of a small critical access hospital ER, I try to get my nurses to be proud of the ER and to work on their CEN !

[Jennyw45013]

I came to ER from ICU. Both are challanging in their own way, but lemme tell you, in ICU I had the luxery of saying I can't take that patient right now. Not in ER :) It is one heck of a job and I love every minute I am there (although I could do without the cussing, threatnening, hitting, puking, pooping, families, requests for food, plugging in cell phone chargers, my toe hurts, etc....) We are a different breed, us ER nurses. And can you find one who isn't proud of it??? I bet you can't :)

[ritarunningfeet]

Pulling up my big girl panties, and yelling LOUD and PROUD of what I do!!!!!

[nursein08]

I could never imagine working in any other area than the ED! Where else could you have the 3 month old with a fever in one room, a STEMI on the way to the cath lab in another, and the sexual assault in the next room? NO WHERE! We have to be skilled in every aspect of nursing...that's why I'm damn proud to shout that I am an ED nurse!

I do believe that we are all equally important. Just like not everyone can do ED, not everyone can do all of the other units. I know for a fact I could never do Med/Surg or any type of inpatient care. I think that takes a special kind of person as well. I give kudos to inpatient nurses cause I surely could not spend 12 hrs with the same pts. I would go insane (of course, sometimes the ED causes that, too!). I need the constant change that I get in my dept. A friend of mine works on a tele unit and can't understand how I could like not having my day planned out...I told her I can't understand how she could like having her day planned out! Different strokes for different folks!

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[EDis4me]

Do big girl training pants count? I have accepted a job in an ER, but I am still in my program until May. But after reading all that you guys have to say I am definitely super excited! I can't wait to become one of you guys!