Pryan6484

I do not believe that the ER is competitive ( at least not in the Philadelphia area). I obtained a job in a level one trauma center fresh out of school. I worked as an ER nurse for two years before leaving to go to be a nurse supervisor at an urgent care. I still get calls from recruiters to work at a few ERs in my area. Burnout is real in the ER. You run rampant for 12 hours, families are up your butt for results, psych patients hit you, you are like hotel hospitality on top of making sure all patients are being treated in a safe way. You must always be on your toes. While being an ER nurse is amazing and a great stepping stone for knowledge sometimes I believe you can cut your nursing career short working in that environment for to long.

I work two years in an ER ( one of them being in a level one trauma center) fresh out of nursing school. I recently became a nurse supervisor at an urgent care center and left the ER. I believe if you really want to be an ER nurse then you should start out in MED SURG. Urgent care is not going to teach you the skills you need to be an ER nurse. Urgent care is busy but a different kind. Most of these people are not really sick and the ones that are you are calling 911 for. Your hands on care is very limited in urgent care. You won’t learn prioritization, and charting in urgent care is non existent compared to what you need to chart as an ER nurse. I suggest you start in MED SURG. If you want to be a limited hand on nurse then stay at urgent care.