One Question?

[CEN35]

tell me why i work er? :imbar

me

[Tookie]

oops

Shouldnt have had the roll and the eyes after check it out - sorry

[CATHYW]

Yo, CEN! Only the strong survive! Glad to hear that yall are getting a handle on it! (-:

[mamabear]

You're in recovery and you want 40 hours a week to practice patience, tolerance and acceptance.

[semstr]

guess you like wearing latex and being whipped too................ LOL

Take it easier, Renee

[micro, RN]

way late on this thread, but crackin'''''

why, me!!!!!!!!!

because as nurses we are masochists.....and we love body fluids!!!!!!!!!

[wrkoutgirl]

nursing is a beautiful carrer and we are privileged to be able to do this noble and rewaring job. the ER and CCU are the units that i wish to be woring at as soon as i become more experienced. i've only been a nurse for 6 months in a telemetry unit. ER and CCU offer magnificent experiences and the opportunity to learn about all areas of nursing. pts come to the ER or CCU with different medical problems and their nurses are very knowlegeable and experienced. i just love nursing and my pts. :chuckle :kiss monica

[CATHYW]

Monica, thank God for folks like you and CEN! Who is going to take care of old, worn-out ER nurses but the likes of you all?

Working Tele is a great entryway for ER. Learn all yu can, and good luck!

[frann]

afraid of elevators?

really like eating graham crackers and fruit juice?

[RNforLongTime]

Rick,

WOW! You get the "Allnurses Nurse of the Year" award! I am glad that I don't work in the ER!

Maybe you are a sadomasochist?

Anyhow, take it easy! :kiss :)

When are you due for another vacation?

Kelly:)

[vablueyes]

I. too, am an ER nurse. During my most Dr. visit, my primary care doc asked if I would consider changing my specialty, being concerned about me possibly having "burnout." I gave it some long hard thought, and decided it was not an option. To do med-surg would be so boring. ICU with the same patients, doing the same thing, until they either got well, or passed on to glory, would not have the same "punch" that I get from the ER. Granted, there is a great amount of satisfaction knowing that you were the "shining angel" during the ICU stay, that still isn't enough to make me change. I get the rush from teaching the teenage moms how to take care of a new baby...helping a CHF'er start breathing better after the lasix and foley...smarting off the the drunk after they smart off to me...patting the little old man's head, after he tells me he sure wishes he had met me 60 years ago...holding the MI patients hand, assuring him that everything is being done to make him better...we don't want him to die, either...

I could go on and on....each day is so similar, yet so very different. You never know what will come throught that door...and you have to be ready for it, no matter what. I just don't think any other field of nursing would give me the jolt that ER nursing does...and, that Corona or two at the end of the day just solidifies our love of our specialty...I mean, where else can you run through a shift, emptying bed pans in one hand, and chomping on a piece of pizza in the other?..Makes you think, huh?

[SICU Queen]

I was pulled to ER for one shift (from ICU) and will NEVER go back. OMG!! You look at some of the creatures that wander in the door and wonder what the hell they do during the day. Every low-life piece of crap that the greater New Orleans area had to offer rolled through the night I worked...

I'll keep my fresh hearts and other critical surgical-type patients, thank you very much. Any of you that work ER, I admire you immensely. I'd lose my mind...

[mother/babyRN, RN]

Seems to me CEN35, that you are there because thats where God wants the best to be....