Oh, the personalities.....

There are some big egos in the ER.

I concur.

As a former Trauma Nurse we do tend to be type A personalities lol

Type A is fine. No beef with that.

Not usually warm and fuzzy no...more like no bull taking go getters or something along those lines. If you want warm and fuzzy go to oncology or psych...

As a former Trauma Nurse we do tend to be type A personalities lol

It's beyond that.

We are assertive, super driven, and no-nonsense.

It is definitely environmentally (well the personality propensity is there) driven.

This is interesting. I'm an ED nurse and don't believe that I have the attitude that has been described. However, I have encountered that attitude from just about every other unit that I have transferred clients to (med surg floors, intermediate care, and ICU). Seems to me that there are such people in every area of this profession. I see a lot of this "sniping" going on between units (hell, I've even seen it between nurses WITHIN my unit). I've never understood where it comes from. Why can't everyone just be professionals and cooperate in the name of helping the patient?

I was vague in my vent for a reason. Don't wanna be recognized. I'm not expecting warm and fuzzy, and I'm not talking about being assertive. I am talking about people who are clueless and lack any sort of insight, and who take themselves far too seriously; people who do and say things that make you go "WTH???"

Can't get more specific than that, I'm afraid. It was a vent after a long, busy shift paired up with one such individual. Your experience may differ.

RN's by and far for the most part have way too much passive aggressive behavior etc........

someone smarter than me pointed this out some time ago about differences in nursing and the personalities that go with them:

er- is a.d.d. -controlled chaos, running around just keeping it all together. still breathing? ...things are good

icu- is o.c.d -meticulous, extensive history, head-to-toe, all i's dotted and t's crossed.

it is what it is. it takes all types and we don't all see things the same way.

your priority is going to be different from mine and that frustrates people upstairs when handing patients off.

all you floor people: when we're doing all we can to maintain 8 or more patients of varying acuity with 30 more in the lobby waiting over 6 hrs to be seen...

take a breath and realize that there are reasons that a patients synthroid or wellbutrin was not administered before they came up to the floor.

butting heads and giving us grief will not help you in your relationship with the er.

we have attitudes.... yep, sometimes.

I agree with you. You're preaching to the choir here. This is a topic for a different thread. One of my best friends is an ICU nurse, and we've had the "Why can't you put an IV in somewhere other than the AC before you send them up?", to which I have replied "Why can't you just put one in wherever you want it after I bring them up?" discussion a few times.