Have been in the ER for 3 hrs now....

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Last time someone came in was two hrs ago and that was a tech. And the nurse was rude. About to lose my patience! But I will not!!!!!!!

Specializes in Med-Surg, Emergency, CEN.

So she's got a doctor she sees regularly for this? Why couldn't she make an appointment with her regular chronic pain MD and save herself the 6 hours? If it was because she didn't want to wait 2-6 days to go to her appt. then 6-12 hours is a comparative breeze.

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Yeah, thanks for the lecture stargazer, but I am not a complete idiot. Perhaps you should thoroughly look through my posts here. I was clearly bored. And even though we sat there for 6 hrs for a rx for muscle relaxer, I still was nice. So save the speech for someone else :)

Maybe I'm missing something, but you wrote a very rude response to a member here because she didn't think you had anything to complain about...? Your explanation of "I was clearly bored" doesn't mean a thing: being bored and writing what looks like foolish complaints to actual ED nurses isn't going to win you any support.

If you were bored enough to be writing posts that are sure to cause an inflammatory reaction, maybe you should have been playing an app instead of posting. Just a thought.

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.

Why did she need to go to the ED for a muscle-relaxant? There are doctors' offices, and if the office is closed, there usually is a doc on call who could have called the rx in. OP has no idea why the nurse was rude. Sometimes things were so wild when I worked in the ED, I wasn't exactly all sunshine and roses.

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Specializes in ER/SICU/Med-Surg/Ortho/Trauma/Flight.

No offense but I would have fast tracked her, I am not trying to be rude but please remember we have cardiacs, traumas, and priority 1's we have to deal with first, and cut the "rude nurse" some slack maybe she was having a bad night as some of us do, I know I especially am this way after a peds resus, or trauma that didnt go so well. I hope your moms fine, good wishes.

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Maybe I'm missing something, but you wrote a very rude response to a member here because she didn't think you had anything to complain about...? Your explanation of "I was clearly bored" doesn't mean a thing: being bored and writing what looks like foolish complaints to actual ED nurses isn't going to win you any support.

If you were bored enough to be writing posts that are sure to cause an inflammatory reaction, maybe you should have been playing an app instead of posting. Just a thought.

Maybe the ER nurse was also "clearly bored," so no harm, no foul. ;)

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Specializes in FNP, ONP.

I think people who clog up the ED with non-emergent emergencies should have to pay cash at time of service.

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I think people who clog up the ED with non-emergent emergencies should have to pay cash at time of service.

With an extra added surcharge for improper use of resources !

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Specializes in FNP, ONP.

And additional fees for complaining about the wait!

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.
I think people who clog up the ED with non-emergent emergencies should have to pay cash at time of service.

Sadly I bet more than half the people that are doing this are the ones that WE are paying for to go in and get their stuff done. So no, I dont want to pay more :)

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Specializes in FNP, ONP.

No, you are missing the point. They would be CASH pay!!

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No, you are missing the point. They would be CASH pay!!

One of our hospitals is doing something like that now for true non-emergancies...that a pcp or walk-in clinic could handle....I've heard its a 100 definitely not what the visit cost, but should cut down on the nonsense visits

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Specializes in PDN; Burn; Phone triage.
Why did she need to go to the ED for a muscle-relaxant? There are doctors' offices, and if the office is closed, there usually is a doc on call who could have called the rx in. OP has no idea why the nurse was rude. Sometimes things were so wild when I worked in the ED, I wasn't exactly all sunshine and roses.

So, I'm not exactly defending the OP's misuse of the ER buuuuuuttt ---)

an outpatient clinic with an on-call doc? esp. one who will write rxs based on a phone call and not an in-clinic visit? Please transport me to your universe.

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