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Remember, chaos is what the ED is all about. It is juggling many things at once, with patients of varying acuities. One of my first lessons was to figure who is sick and who is not by just looking at them. They tell you it will take a year to get "comfortable" and they are RIGHT. hang in there, keep trying, don't give up. We are not just about trauma, but a lot of medical patients, abdominal pain, hypertensive crisis, MI, stroke, overdoses, etc....trauma goes toward the clinicians and you are not a "booth" nurse for 6-9 months and that is where the sickest go from the pods. Patience, learning and moving ever forward is the way.
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Parkland ER residency is open. Good luck to all.