:angryfire Oh my Gosh... Just sat here and read all of this remarks. Just shaking my head. I have been an ER nurse for over 15 years and I started out on a tele unit fresh out of nursing school, I do remember what it is like, but it seems that the nurses that are putting down us ER nurses don't have a clue as to what happens in the ER. YES YOU HAVE EMERGENCYS TOO. But WHO is it that responds to your codes. THE ER NURSES!!!! HELLOOOO.. We have to leave our patients to go to the floor to work the codes, because most of the time the floor nurses don't have a clue as what to do. Because they don't need to? How many floor nurses have their ACLS?? So we might be working a chest pain or two or three and have ambulances coming in and still have to respond to the floor emergencys. And to whom ever said that when we get busy we go on diversion. NOT TRUE.....Can't divert an unstable pt if your the closest hospital... Most ER nurses can multi-task and can do 3-4 chest pains and set up a suture tray at the same time. Get a grip. We dont get lunches or breaks most of the time and there is nothing more irriating than to call report to the floor, any of them, only to hear that the nurse can't take report because she/he is at lunch. AN ACTUAL SIT DOWN LUNCH????? Maybe all the floor nurses who think that the ER nurses have it so easy should really spend at least 12 hours just observing in the ER. It takes a special kind of person and personality to work in the ER and not everyone is cut out to be an ER nurse, just as it takes a special kind of person to work the floors, icu, or, ob,....ect. Thank god that there is alot of diversity in nursing so we all can fit in. The old saying....walk a mile in my shoes.....
