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 FNP, ONP.

My out patient clinic has someone on all 24/7. I don't, but I know some of my colleagues will renew a current prescription over the phone.

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.
No, you are missing the point. They would be CASH pay!!

Oh I got ya. Cash on the spot. Hell have a menu out in the lobby so people know what to expect ha ha

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Specializes in ICU, ER, EP,.

Hey all, the OP is NOT a nurse, the OP is in school. This person has no idea yet what it is like to juggle assignments, let alone appease bored family members. Altruisim and reality; not the same thing :rolleyes:

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If you'd come to my ER today, you'd still be waiting in the waiting room. We routinely have 24+ hour waits for non-emergent cases.

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If the OP is in school and not yet a nurse, please do not JUDGE the ER nurses.

This is all....

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Specializes in Emergency Medicine.

I'll just bet you were able to leave the ER alive...

Sounds like a good visit to me. Better if you were

actually discharged.

Did you really need to be there or did the staff manage

to snatch you from the jaws of death?

Good luck in your future endeavors with unreasonable expectations...

Life must surely be a series of constant letdowns.

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Specializes in Emergency.

if the OP is a student.....that explains everything!

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Specializes in ED.
With an extra added surcharge for improper use of resources !

I like this x1000

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
if the OP is a student.....that explains everything!

Student possibly a new grad....

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Specializes in ER.

I'd like to know what the covering nurse did/said that made her "Rude" ? I tell people all the time when they ask- how long of a wait is it going to be? "If how long your wait is determines if you are going to stay to be seen, then you are NOT, in fact, sick enough to need to be seen in the ED." If that's rude, so be it. Once the OP actually graduates, passes the boards, and works in an ED, then she can come back and complain about the RUDE ED NURSES- until then I suggest you find something else to entertain yourself when you are keeping Mom company durning a NONEMERGENT visit to an EMERGENCY room.

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Specializes in ER.
"If how long your wait is determines if you are going to stay to be seen, then you are NOT, in fact, sick enough to need to be seen in the ED."

Can I get this poster size??

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Specializes in SNF, LTC, MED/SURG, ER.

I've been rude before, but I had just had a kid my nephew's age come in covered from head to toe with burns like he pulled a pot of boiling liquid on himself. Mom was screaming, kid was screaming and naturally I tended to the mom and kid first. Then I had a chronic pain patient come up to me (I work at the registration desk, they want nurses to staff it now) and say that she didn't see why she had to wait over a burned kid and then accused the family of abuse, and drug manufacturing, ect...... I snapped. I told her that I didn't know how the kid was burned and even if I did that I wouldn't tell her because she wasn't worth the jail time. I told her to sit down and wait her turn. I know that was rude but I was just so shocked that she could say such things about another human I couldn't help myself. I hope you get a good preceptor when you start working as a nurse and your eyes will be opened to real world nursing. Don't forget that nurses are human too. Lots of ER nurses also get PTSD.......another reason why they may be "rude".

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