My dad was an RN in the ER, ICU, CCU, and CVICU for almost 30 years. He recently passed from brain cancer. I miss hearing his stories from being a nurse.
I’m sorry your dad passed recently. My dad passed away four years ago. And, I still hurt from him missing in my life. It hurts when the people and pets we have as family pass away. My thoughts are with you. 😢 💜💜💜
I’m an ER nurse ( but in Australia we call it ED) and I love the chaos of it all, but I think Liz forgot to mention all the crazy psych and toxicology we deal with.
I have been an ICU ( MICU & CCU) for 43 years and recently retired. I love the ICU because I like being organized and prepared if my patient crashes or I get a trainwreck from the E.R. or an in house cardiac arrest that we put on Artic Sun hypothermia protocol. My unit gets IABP, Impella's, Watchman's, Strokes and neuro cases, CVVHD dialysis and the list goes on. It can be very hectic and stressful and now my unit is a covid unit for the sickest ones. I do like getting to know my patients and families better than an E.R. nurse is able to do because their goal is to move them out ASAP. People need to know that patient outcomes are directly related to the nursing care they receive in both departments and that we nurses are the best advocates for our patients.
ER nurse! Love the organized chaos. I’ve been to ICU a few times and it doesn’t have the same energy. It can get overwhelming sometimes in the ER but each day we try to get better at managing it.
So good to hear both sides of the story. I'm a trauma ER nurse. It feels like there's a great divide between ER and ICU. I do think that most ppl do not realize we do a focus assessment and deal with such. I feel like alot of nurses get upset when maintenance fluids are not hung or central lines are not placed. I have had 2 ICU pts before and a HAMS, and I have to choose what orders are critical. I find it frustrating that we do not always support each other in this field. (We don't have CNAs either)
I would definitely choose ICU! ER nurses have so many patients throughout the course of their shift and I would much rather just have 2 that I know everything about
I'm an ICU RN that started out working EMS while in nursing school and continue to work there for my county so I kind of work in both worlds. Basically, I run enough 911 to know that I wanted to be an ICU nurse when I got my RN😂😂 I enjoy being able to hand off my 911 patients to the very talented ER nurses and say ,"I'll see ya again soon in the ICU when they get you stabilized." Being able to be a part of someone's care from the point they needed 911 to the day they are well enough to move up to med-surg is a real blessing. May God bless all nurses regardless of where we work. Much love to all! ❤️❤️
I was a ICU nurse first, I learned how to be a ER nurse by floating, and I did a lot of agency where I would work both ER and ICU in the same shift. Organized chaos in the ER is fun, but a really good unstable crashing patient with a Swan, multiple vasopressors, a ventric, triple H therapy, septic shock, neuro, codes are all fun to. I dig both the ICU and ER. 😊
See a pic of me teaching Ebola protocol....I co-developed at VA hospital Louisville KY. I also standardized all crash carts. Also I reduced critical lab errors by 50%...yes!!! FIFTY PERCENT!!! How cool is that! Saw an issue, worked to initiate changes. I love being a nurse!!!
Im a cath lab RN, i think in the lab you get a little bit of both, it's super chaotic while your stabilizing a pt with impella or pacing or coding the pt or RSI, or all of those at once but once everything is set and they are semi stable things calm down and become very detail oriented, for instance managing anticoagulation/ACT timing, sorting lines and managing hemodynamics becomes very detail oriented. I love the lab! Haha
As a first responder and soon to become a nurse this year, I couldn't chose between ICU and ED. However, as I am working on my preceptorship in the ER, I absolutely feel like I am home, so I made a decision to pursuit ER. Funny but when I told my Chief' I was thinking about ED, he told me, "of course you are going to the ED, that's where you belong"
I like the idea of fast pace work bc I’ve worked in fast pace restaurant as a waiter, but scared the fact i may accidentally miss something for a patient and harm him/her. It is nursing not serving I can’t make a stupid mistake.
As an ER nurse, the highest number of pts I had at one time was 26. The lowest I ever had was 5 and they were ALL ICU pts that couldn't go to the ICU because their nurses were maxed out at 2 pts each (Ummmmmm.....Really ?!!)
You missed the point Jill McKenna Bailey - I was drowning in the ED with 5 ICU patients and they couldn’t take any of them because they were maxed out at 2 - So what about the 5 ICU pt I was taking care of ??
I’m a tech. I work on med/surg and I can have up to 13 patients to myself and it can be so overwhelming.🥺 but I love my patients and try my best to be there for my patients and help the nurses as much as I can. I can’t wait to be a nurse one day.
I’m in high school and my dream is to become an ER nurse , ICU or work in paediatrics . I’ve wanted to be a nurse since I was in primary school because I love how much effort they care for their patients and I’ve been in hospital before and the nurses really helped me and I know how scary hospital can be 🥺❤️💖
I'm taking a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) in college. I want to be a Nurse, but I don't know what Nurse specialty I want to work in. This type of video helps me in decision-making. I'm still not sure... I'm going to work in Newyork, that's the state I want to work in. Hoping and manifesting to pass the NCLEX exam someday!!
Thank You for all you do! My blood pressure is a bit astonishing now and again for this reason I'm in and out of the hospital my hat is off to you both.
I am a new grad nurse and I wanted to start in ICU. I got the ER and will be starting soon. Normally, I am the the of person who gets organized and like to know what to expect..uncertainties gets me stressed and anxious..I love details and stuff..but hey life, learning and growing are all abt facing challenges.. and me starting up in an ER as a new grad is one of those challenges..thanks for ur video..and I look forward to it..
I love doing both accept I live in Little Rock Arkansas where half the city was demolished by tornados a few days ago so I’m be happy to be back in ICU.
Wow where are you located because I worked in the ER for 5 years and our nurses would have anywhere from 4-8 patients at once. It was so unsafe and unregulated and no one but the nurses cared. They worked so so hard.
My dad recently had his last heart attack and was brought into his closest hospital that has a heart unit , he was in alot if pain and they couldn’t get his vtach to stop so th had to shock him while awake in ambulance on the way which did nothing and he said it hurt like no other but when brought in ER he was immediately taken to cath lab and was in there 3 hours cuz his heart was anatomically incorrect so they were unable to punch thru to get get oxygen to get oxygen to the hole half of his heart and the heart specialist couldn’t believe he lived thru that but when they finally got thru the heart on that side the heart was pretty much dead but my dad was still alive cuz my dad is one strong man but he had these butterfly ivs on both arms they used to try to keep his blood pressure up cuz it was very low and they had to do the pressure oxygen too but my dad is tuff although taking any breaths was ver short and you could tell was very hard and short and he couldn’t stand up without losing his balance and the ICU docs told us he was in so many meds that was keeping him alive and without them he would pass so scary but my dad knew and my dad hated hospitals especially after being in the Korean War and what he seen so after a few days he called me and said he wanted to go home as I heard him ask the doctors what was the point of them giving him all these meds when e knew it was just prolonging the inevitable especially when he kept going into v tach which is a fatal heart rhythm & that’s when he did the DNR CUZ HE DID NOT WANT TO BE SHOCKED AGAIN ESPECIALLY KNOWING THAT THERE WAS NO WAY HE WAS GONNA LIVE WITH ONLY HALF OF HIS HEART WORKING & there was no improvement over the last few days & he had the butte
Of course I like the organization and not super chaotic idea of the ICU but I think I would much rather choose ER just because I also like not knowing what’s coming in and I feel like it would be a little more exciting because you will get to see a little bit of everything. That’s my goal is to become an RN which I’m in school for right now😀
The ER will always keep you on your toes which if that’s your style, you should go for it! Keep on staying passionate and we wish you the best on your RN journey 🤘🤘
I feel confident that I could step in to any role offered in nursing because of my skills acquired as an ICU nurse including ER. Further, most advanced nursing programs encourage applicants to have ICU experience before applying. But I tip my hat to ER Nurses, because they deal with the unfiltered reality of what comes into our hospital and it ain't very pretty at times.
Ok ICU is HARD too! Why is the other one not talking about how every doctor, resident, and all the teams in the hospital comes to the ICU nurse with questions all day long, as soon as you sit down to chart, the nurse is needed. How the docs can’t wipe their ass without a nurse. How sometimes when it’s short you may get 3patients! The nurse must take their patient for CT Scans and whatever other testing needed along with the transporter dragging beds back and forth, perform full care on their patients making it worse when the CNA is lazy and does not want to help which is everywhere and if the lazy CNA’s are not at your facility please tell me where you work so I can come!!
The ICU doesn't even get CNAs at my hospital so just be grateful for the help you do have. If someone's being "lazy" it could be that they don't know what else they could be doing for you. A lot of the things nurses have to get done, only NURSES can do. If you're stressed because you're running behind, it's likely not because a CNA wasn't helping. It's because the majority of tasks you have to do in a day, only nurses are allowed to do like medications, charting, etc. If you need help speak up and treat people with kindness. If you're coming at someone with negative vibes of course they won't want to be around you
I work Long Term Acute Care, currently in a post-acute-medical unit, I have an average of 20 patients with on-going admits and discharges, I pass my own meds, provide wound care, and over-see ADLs. Aside from politics; understaffing; and random arising issues, I have patients on IVs, Trachs, ostomies, hospice without DNRs, fall risks, combatives, psych pts, etc. I'm in school right now and have a little over 2 years to complete my BSN and want to work ICU 😅
I would pick ER over ICU. Thank you for the video. I am going to go into nursing school this year and am looking into the different areas to get an idea of what interests me the most. This video was very helpful.
This was a super informative video! You should totally do an ICU vs OR video! I can give some great advice on how to give 0 warning and no information about the patient before we come up to the ICU!😂 haha no but that would be a great video!
Where is this ED that you get 2 rooms with 4 patients????? Please tell me! I work in a Trauma 1 medical center ED in NYC... and we get anywhere up to 7 paients at once (sometimes more)... and we rotate the notifications or level 1 or level 2 traumas as they come in. Taking 4 patients sounds like a dream. Please do tell which state you are in. Travel nursing is always an option and i would love to find out my options lol.
I am a retired CT Technologist who spent my last 14 years at level 1 trauma centers. It is absolutely chaotic when a major trauma, cardiac, or stroke patient rolls in. I loved that chaos because I knew that for the next 20 minutes, I would be incredibly busy but after that it would calm down. I always hated it when someone would come in and mention how quiet things were at that moment. NEVER use the 'Q' word in an ED because it will come back to haunt you.
We dont need to have so much chaos in nursing. Hospitals need to hire more nurses and pay them better. They could prioritize this but it seems like the don’t. The safety issues that arise with short staffing is unacceptable. And not to mention people don’t want to pickup extra shifts because a lot of hospitals always keep staff just enough or short.
If a icu nurse messed up something in my friend senior care that I caught it and then she tried to deflect towards and got quite condescending and fairly certain lied in report and left her shift My friend was deteriorating rapidly but I not sure how to report or if I should .Sorry to ask getting much prayer
Continued-2 this mass on the inner corner of his nose& eye that continued to grow & finally went to doctor cuz it kept bleeding ( one thing about my dad he did not go to docs if he could avoid at all possible example cuz he was a mechanic& worked in cars & his passion of building the best Sand rails “dune buggies” since the early 70’s for himself&my brother&i & eventually2 sell cuz he could do custom & sell for $30k- over $100k plus he loved it things would happen & I seen one time a piece of sheet metal had sliced his arm wide open from wrist to almost the cease of elbow yet my dad would pull out the super glue lol he used super glue long before ER’s starte using it instead stitched & liquid skin/bandage too it was just my dad lol anything was better than going to the doctor) back to the mass on my dads face so he finally seen a doctor, they did a biopsy & sure Enuf it came back as an aggressive type of skin cancer & they immediately wanted to set up surgery@ huntsman center but as soon as my dad found out that the margins were so deep that they would disfigure him by removing half of his eye socket and basically the base of his nose he declined& said I’m to old to go thru such a change& at the time he was about 70yrs old& there was no convincing him otherwise so over the years it continued to grow so much that it grew in front of that corner of his eye so he couldn’t see as well to drive very far or at night but he never complained, then about a year after that diagnosis he went to the doctor cause he was having trouble voiding and sure Enuf after some tests his was diagnosed with prostate cancer& his markers on that were of the chart & they continued testing and the numbers keep rising but he had no interest in treatment, so we all were aware with all his stents & a catastrophic event in the table with the last stent from back then where the entire heart muscle literally comes apart from itself & the doctor told me angrily when I said so it’s very rare he replied “ no no tare IT DIES NOT HAPPEN EVER ABD IF I WASNT ALREADY IN YOUR DADS GEART AT THAT EXACT MOMENT YOUR DAD WOULD Be DEAD!! we were informed at that moment my dad was in borrowed time from that moment forward & we’d be lucky to have him another year ( he was about 69 yrs old at that time) but if he has another heart attack it’s game over for him. Continued-3
I don’t understand the hate and constant complain I get from my fellow ICU nurses when ever getting report from ER. I don’t have ER experience but I can EMPATHIZE on how busy it must be. Even as a travel nurse, I get report in less than 2 mins and only ask necessary questions.
@@kaysiposey5975 life is strange chaos but i liked your comment! I'm a nursing student and I hope i find a place like that, i don't mind working long hours.
If you are extremely organize and value that, then deff ICU. You most likely won’t see much organization in the ED and will most likely be stressed out by the amount of disorganized chaos in there. Most ICU patients are critical and you will get ample opportunities to promptly act when you know they are going downhill
ICU nurse here! We ARE EXTREMELY LUCKY IF WE HAVE ONLY 2 VERY UNSTABLE PATIENTS! THESE DAYS (ESPECIALLY COVID-19 TIMES) WE HAVE 3-4 PTS EACH ICU RN! OUR ER NURSES HAVE ANYWHERE FROM 4-8 PTS. Don't ever work for a profit hospital! They'll crap all over you then punish you for doing a job well done!
Alright the ICU nurse is making it seem like ICU is all completely planned. She didn’t talk about all the drips we have to titrate, the complete level of care we provide that goes above and beyond what most ER nurses are trained to do, how the doctors are constantly asking you questions, how sometimes you may have to take 3 or 4 pts in the ICU if you are short, how sometimes you may have no PCT to help at all but you are still expected to provide COMPLETE care to all your pts whether you have 2 or 4, how many times you have to stay behind to chart because you had no time to sit down and chart through the whole 12 hours, and on and on
Love the 007 emergency nurses :- * So down to earth and friendly. Hats off to you for your brilliant life saving skiils. You are the Best!!! Personally I can't stand haughty,swollen headed ICU nurses. I care less what they do!
Thanks for the video!!! I'm mid way through third semester accelerated BSN program. I have been trying to decide where I should focus myself and I've been leaning toward ER. However, I don't know if anyone will hire a new grad in the ER right off. Any suggestions on where to begin career as BSN RN so I can be well rounded and gain great skills to be solid, confident, capable, and marketable?! I am afraid if I go to something super specific I will pigeonhole myself there and was told it would be harder to find jobs if I don't have a good baseline of skills. thanks!
I'm both an ICU and ER RN and completely understand both sides. My only problem with this post is - how many times I hear "like" in one sentence 🤣. Put on Closed Captioning and count how much "like" and "totally" are used in one sentence. God I hope she is truly a good nurse. There are other words such as FOR EXAMPLE instead of LIKE every other word. Wears me out. And slow your speed down.
ER nurse here. That's cute. The other day I had 2 ICU patients plus 8 regular (impatient) patients. You really don't know pressure until you work in my ER.
I wish! The CNA’s where I work think that all they have to do is stock and make excuses when the RN needs assistance especially the old ones. No punitive measures. The nurse literally does it all!
@@CakeLife2885 my wife is a Cna, she does all the dirty work. Previously she worked for a place were they had her drawing blood, Foley's, EKGS, type and cross, on top of everything else.
@@melaniesalmon9474 ugh, I'm sorry about that. You truly are the front line. Thank you for everything you do. I'm sure you're overwhelmed with patients.
My dad was an RN in the ER, ICU, CCU, and CVICU for almost 30 years. He recently passed from brain cancer. I miss hearing his stories from being a nurse.
Imagine how many people he would have helped over the years. What an amazing guy im sure you must be so proud he's ur dad 🙏
I’m sorry your dad passed recently. My dad passed away four years ago. And, I still hurt from him missing in my life. It hurts when the people and pets we have as family pass away. My thoughts are with you. 😢
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Truly sorry to hear that 😢
I'm very sorry for your loss.
I’m an ER nurse ( but in Australia we call it ED) and I love the chaos of it all, but I think Liz forgot to mention all the crazy psych and toxicology we deal with.
In the UK 🇬🇧 it’s called A&E nurse
Depends if it’s public versus private. Private is nowhere near as bad in that regard.
I love the ER... it's really organized chaos...most days you don't feel the shift go by because of how busy it gets
I wanted ICU, because I work in the ER now while in nursing school. After being there for a while, I choose the ER. Treat and Street.
Awesome, continue crushing it 💪
I have been an ICU ( MICU & CCU) for 43 years and recently retired. I love the ICU because I like being organized and prepared if my patient crashes or I get a trainwreck from the E.R. or an in house cardiac arrest that we put on Artic Sun hypothermia protocol. My unit gets IABP, Impella's, Watchman's, Strokes and neuro cases, CVVHD dialysis and the list goes on. It can be very hectic and stressful and now my unit is a covid unit for the sickest ones. I do like getting to know my patients and families better than an E.R. nurse is able to do because their goal is to move them out ASAP. People need to know that patient outcomes are directly related to the nursing care they receive in both departments and that we nurses are the best advocates for our patients.
ER nurse! Love the organized chaos. I’ve been to ICU a few times and it doesn’t have the same energy. It can get overwhelming sometimes in the ER but each day we try to get better at managing it.
You and your fellow nurses are all heroes, regardless of any label. THANK YOU for all you do!
So good to hear both sides of the story. I'm a trauma ER nurse. It feels like there's a great divide between ER and ICU. I do think that most ppl do not realize we do a focus assessment and deal with such. I feel like alot of nurses get upset when maintenance fluids are not hung or central lines are not placed. I have had 2 ICU pts before and a HAMS, and I have to choose what orders are critical. I find it frustrating that we do not always support each other in this field. (We don't have CNAs either)
I would definitely choose ICU! ER nurses have so many patients throughout the course of their shift and I would much rather just have 2 that I know everything about
I wish more ICU nurses were as understanding of what us ER nurses deal with!💓
I am starting nursing school Aug 31st and my dream job is to become an ER Nurse in a trauma 1 hospital!!!!
Coming from a respiratory therapist. I loveeee my icu nurses ❤ You learn a lot more in the icu.
I´m currently studying and i must say that definitely ER caught my attention
probably ER nursing, it seems more interesting and fast paced
It's a tough call especially since I've had both rotations for clinicals. I leaning towards ICU because I would love to be in the NSICU
Both great choices
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I'm an ICU RN that started out working EMS while in nursing school and continue to work there for my county so I kind of work in both worlds. Basically, I run enough 911 to know that I wanted to be an ICU nurse when I got my RN😂😂 I enjoy being able to hand off my 911 patients to the very talented ER nurses and say ,"I'll see ya again soon in the ICU when they get you stabilized." Being able to be a part of someone's care from the point they needed 911 to the day they are well enough to move up to med-surg is a real blessing. May God bless all nurses regardless of where we work. Much love to all! ❤️❤️
I was a ICU nurse first, I learned how to be a ER nurse by floating, and I did a lot of agency where I would work both ER and ICU in the same shift. Organized chaos in the ER is fun, but a really good unstable crashing patient with a Swan, multiple vasopressors, a ventric, triple H therapy, septic shock, neuro, codes are all fun to. I dig both the ICU and ER. 😊
Just changed my major from Psychology to Nursing. This was a great video. Thanks for posting!
See a pic of me teaching Ebola protocol....I co-developed at VA hospital Louisville KY.
I also standardized all crash carts.
Also I reduced critical lab errors by 50%...yes!!! FIFTY PERCENT!!!
How cool is that!
Saw an issue, worked to initiate changes.
I love being a nurse!!!
Thank you for this video!! I’m starting a graduate nurse residency program in the ER in July so I’m trying to be as mentally prepared as possible! Lol
ICU Nurse here from Malaysia! Great to hear from both of you 💪🏼
Im a cath lab RN, i think in the lab you get a little bit of both, it's super chaotic while your stabilizing a pt with impella or pacing or coding the pt or RSI, or all of those at once but once everything is set and they are semi stable things calm down and become very detail oriented, for instance managing anticoagulation/ACT timing, sorting lines and managing hemodynamics becomes very detail oriented. I love the lab! Haha
ER Nursing! I am going to be doing my High Acuity lecture next semester which should be interesting
As a first responder and soon to become a nurse this year, I couldn't chose between ICU and ED. However, as I am working on my preceptorship in the ER, I absolutely feel like I am home, so I made a decision to pursuit ER.
Funny but when I told my Chief' I was thinking about ED, he told me, "of course you are going to the ED, that's where you belong"
I like the idea of fast pace work bc I’ve worked in fast pace restaurant as a waiter, but scared the fact i may accidentally miss something for a patient and harm him/her. It is nursing not serving I can’t make a stupid mistake.
As an ER nurse, the highest number of pts I had at one time was 26. The lowest I ever had was 5 and they were ALL ICU pts that couldn't go to the ICU because their nurses were maxed out at 2 pts each (Ummmmmm.....Really ?!!)
Yup 2 max and true ICU pts it should be 2 to 1 RN
You missed the point Jill McKenna Bailey - I was drowning in the ED with 5 ICU patients and they couldn’t take any of them because they were maxed out at 2 - So what about the 5 ICU pt I was taking care of ??
@@leahmcdermott3285 no I get the point, both areas need more staffing.
Leah McDermott definitely a facility issue. I’d leave.
I’m a tech. I work on med/surg and I can have up to 13 patients to myself and it can be so overwhelming.🥺 but I love my patients and try my best to be there for my patients and help the nurses as much as I can. I can’t wait to be a nurse one day.
I likely have PTSD after a few years nursing in a busy ED. 'Organized chaos' is too kind. Its combat. And the dead haunt you.
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Especially during wave after wave of the pandemic.
I’m in high school and my dream is to become an ER nurse , ICU or work in paediatrics . I’ve wanted to be a nurse since I was in primary school because I love how much effort they care for their patients and I’ve been in hospital before and the nurses really helped me and I know how scary hospital can be 🥺❤️💖
I’m so glad to hear your passion
I'm taking a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) in college. I want to be a Nurse, but I don't know what Nurse specialty I want to work in. This type of video helps me in decision-making. I'm still not sure...
I'm going to work in Newyork, that's the state I want to work in. Hoping and manifesting to pass the NCLEX exam someday!!
100% ICU.. I can’t do the chaos. I need strict organization with my OCD lol
Thank You for all you do! My blood pressure is a bit astonishing now and again for this reason I'm in and out of the hospital my hat is off to you both.
I am a new grad nurse and I wanted to start in ICU. I got the ER and will be starting soon. Normally, I am the the of person who gets organized and like to know what to expect..uncertainties gets me stressed and anxious..I love details and stuff..but hey life, learning and growing are all abt facing challenges.. and me starting up in an ER as a new grad is one of those challenges..thanks for ur video..and I look forward to it..
How is that going for you? starting next week as a new grad in the ER and would like some input
I love doing both accept I live in Little Rock Arkansas where half the city was demolished by tornados a few days ago so I’m be happy to be back in ICU.
Wow where are you located because I worked in the ER for 5 years and our nurses would have anywhere from 4-8 patients at once. It was so unsafe and unregulated and no one but the nurses cared. They worked so so hard.
My dad recently had his last heart attack and was brought into his closest hospital that has a heart unit , he was in alot if pain and they couldn’t get his vtach to stop so th had to shock him while awake in ambulance on the way which did nothing and he said it hurt like no other but when brought in ER he was immediately taken to cath lab and was in there 3 hours cuz his heart was anatomically incorrect so they were unable to punch thru to get get oxygen to get oxygen to the hole half of his heart and the heart specialist couldn’t believe he lived thru that but when they finally got thru the heart on that side the heart was pretty much dead but my dad was still alive cuz my dad is one strong man but he had these butterfly ivs on both arms they used to try to keep his blood pressure up cuz it was very low and they had to do the pressure oxygen too but my dad is tuff although taking any breaths was ver short and you could tell was very hard and short and he couldn’t stand up without losing his balance and the ICU docs told us he was in so many meds that was keeping him alive and without them he would pass so scary but my dad knew and my dad hated hospitals especially after being in the Korean War and what he seen so after a few days he called me and said he wanted to go home as I heard him ask the doctors what was the point of them giving him all these meds when e knew it was just prolonging the inevitable especially when he kept going into v tach which is a fatal heart rhythm & that’s when he did the DNR CUZ HE DID NOT WANT TO BE SHOCKED AGAIN ESPECIALLY KNOWING THAT THERE WAS NO WAY HE WAS GONNA LIVE WITH ONLY HALF OF HIS HEART WORKING & there was no improvement over the last few days & he had the butte
i am an ER Nurse , ER is life. spontaneous and challenging. an ER nurse can handle any specialty / any emergency
Love this video!!!!! And the conversation is something I'd wanna be a part of as an aspiring ER nurse
Of course I like the organization and not super chaotic idea of the ICU but I think I would much rather choose ER just because I also like not knowing what’s coming in and I feel like it would be a little more exciting because you will get to see a little bit of everything. That’s my goal is to become an RN which I’m in school for right now😀
The ER will always keep you on your toes which if that’s your style, you should go for it! Keep on staying passionate and we wish you the best on your RN journey 🤘🤘
I feel confident that I could step in to any role offered in nursing because of my skills acquired as an ICU nurse including ER. Further, most advanced nursing programs encourage applicants to have ICU experience before applying. But I tip my hat to ER Nurses, because they deal with the unfiltered reality of what comes into our hospital and it ain't very pretty at times.
Loved this video!! I’m torn between both so this really gave me more insight ❤️
Glad you found it helpful! If you have any questions as well, feel free to DM Maddi or Liz on Instagram!
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Ok ICU is HARD too! Why is the other one not talking about how every doctor, resident, and all the teams in the hospital comes to the ICU nurse with questions all day long, as soon as you sit down to chart, the nurse is needed. How the docs can’t wipe their ass without a nurse. How sometimes when it’s short you may get 3patients! The nurse must take their patient for CT Scans and whatever other testing needed along with the transporter dragging beds back and forth, perform full care on their patients making it worse when the CNA is lazy and does not want to help which is everywhere and if the lazy CNA’s are not at your facility please tell me where you work so I can come!!
Maine medical center. Most CNAs and techs are great!
Carson Tahoe hospital I run my ass off and so do all of my coworkers no lazy cna’s here!
Depends on the facility if CNA’s are lazy. I’ve experienced both.
The ICU doesn't even get CNAs at my hospital so just be grateful for the help you do have. If someone's being "lazy" it could be that they don't know what else they could be doing for you. A lot of the things nurses have to get done, only NURSES can do. If you're stressed because you're running behind, it's likely not because a CNA wasn't helping. It's because the majority of tasks you have to do in a day, only nurses are allowed to do like medications, charting, etc. If you need help speak up and treat people with kindness. If you're coming at someone with negative vibes of course they won't want to be around you
I work Long Term Acute Care, currently in a post-acute-medical unit, I have an average of 20 patients with on-going admits and discharges, I pass my own meds, provide wound care, and over-see ADLs. Aside from politics; understaffing; and random arising issues, I have patients on IVs, Trachs, ostomies, hospice without DNRs, fall risks, combatives, psych pts, etc. I'm in school right now and have a little over 2 years to complete my BSN and want to work ICU 😅
Organized Chaos......perfect description of ER!!
I would pick ER over ICU. Thank you for the video. I am going to go into nursing school this year and am looking into the different areas to get an idea of what interests me the most. This video was very helpful.
ICU 100 percent I lke organization all around
Uhh - I am a medstudent and I just discovered your channel 😍 definitely here to stay! 😊
Appreciated the comparison but i hope you also discuss how difficult to endorse patient from ER to ICU. :)
ER Nurse for me, I have worked ER 5 years and love the organized chaos!
Thank you both I was in icu for 12 days on a ventalter for 10
ICU all the way. I like knowing what I’m going to get (for the most part). Love you both💙💜
-a PCU CNA.
I'm going to My College to study for ER Nursing! I'm so excited 😆❤️😁
This was a super informative video! You should totally do an ICU vs OR video! I can give some great advice on how to give 0 warning and no information about the patient before we come up to the ICU!😂 haha no but that would be a great video!
Man, I want to work in the hospital where the ICU nurse works. Her days seems blissful, 2 pts max??? Sometimes I have 4
Where is this ED that you get 2 rooms with 4 patients????? Please tell me! I work in a Trauma 1 medical center ED in NYC... and we get anywhere up to 7 paients at once (sometimes more)... and we rotate the notifications or level 1 or level 2 traumas as they come in. Taking 4 patients sounds like a dream. Please do tell which state you are in. Travel nursing is always an option and i would love to find out my options lol.
Both are critical thinkers ❤and are so valued ❤❤❤
Only 1 of them will be accepted to the CRNA Program (the Crème de la Crème of all Nursing)
Guess which one?
ICU nurse , I float to ED since I’m cross trained but my home is ICU.
I'm going for ER.
I want to become an ER Nurse. Right now I am just upgrading so I am able to take the Nursing Program.
I am a retired CT Technologist who spent my last 14 years at level 1 trauma centers. It is absolutely chaotic when a major trauma, cardiac, or stroke patient rolls in. I loved that chaos because I knew that for the next 20 minutes, I would be incredibly busy but after that it would calm down. I always hated it when someone would come in and mention how quiet things were at that moment. NEVER use the 'Q' word in an ED because it will come back to haunt you.
ICU, for sure. Even an organized chaos is still a chaos.
That means there needs to be more nurses. However there is already a shortage.
That’s real cute that they do 1:1 for CRRT and IABP at your hospital.
Those are just basic ICU patients here.
Imagine that stemming down to our every day life... “Oh it looks like I’m going to break my leg at 4:45 today” 😂
We dont need to have so much chaos in nursing. Hospitals need to hire more nurses and pay them better. They could prioritize this but it seems like the don’t. The safety issues that arise with short staffing is unacceptable. And not to mention people don’t want to pickup extra shifts because a lot of hospitals always keep staff just enough or short.
I've worked both. If you're in ICU and there is a patient in the ER that needs to be in ICU.... get them up there as quickly as possible.
If a icu nurse messed up something in my friend senior care that I caught it and then she tried to deflect towards and got quite condescending and fairly certain lied in report and left her shift My friend was deteriorating rapidly but I not sure how to report or if I should .Sorry to ask getting much prayer
Continued-2 this mass on the inner corner of his nose& eye that continued to grow & finally went to doctor cuz it kept bleeding ( one thing about my dad he did not go to docs if he could avoid at all possible example cuz he was a mechanic& worked in cars & his passion of building the best Sand rails “dune buggies” since the early 70’s for himself&my brother&i & eventually2 sell cuz he could do custom & sell for $30k- over $100k plus he loved it things would happen & I seen one time a piece of sheet metal had sliced his arm wide open from wrist to almost the cease of elbow yet my dad would pull out the super glue lol he used super glue long before ER’s starte using it instead stitched & liquid skin/bandage too it was just my dad lol anything was better than going to the doctor) back to the mass on my dads face so he finally seen a doctor, they did a biopsy & sure Enuf it came back as an aggressive type of skin cancer & they immediately wanted to set up surgery@ huntsman center but as soon as my dad found out that the margins were so deep that they would disfigure him by removing half of his eye socket and basically the base of his nose he declined& said I’m to old to go thru such a change& at the time he was about 70yrs old& there was no convincing him otherwise so over the years it continued to grow so much that it grew in front of that corner of his eye so he couldn’t see as well to drive very far or at night but he never complained, then about a year after that diagnosis he went to the doctor cause he was having trouble voiding and sure Enuf after some tests his was diagnosed with prostate cancer& his markers on that were of the chart & they continued testing and the numbers keep rising but he had no interest in treatment, so we all were aware with all his stents & a catastrophic event in the table with the last stent from back then where the entire heart muscle literally comes apart from itself & the doctor told me angrily when I said so it’s very rare he replied “ no no tare IT DIES NOT HAPPEN EVER ABD IF I WASNT ALREADY IN YOUR DADS GEART AT THAT EXACT MOMENT YOUR DAD WOULD Be DEAD!! we were informed at that moment my dad was in borrowed time from that moment forward & we’d be lucky to have him another year ( he was about 69 yrs old at that time) but if he has another heart attack it’s game over for him. Continued-3
Spent 3 years working on the floor and have been in CVICU for 1.5 years...never going back 🤣
Glad you found something you can lock into and enjoy though!
I don’t understand the hate and constant complain I get from my fellow ICU nurses when ever getting report from ER. I don’t have ER experience but I can EMPATHIZE on how busy it must be. Even as a travel nurse, I get report in less than 2 mins and only ask necessary questions.
I'm obsessed with the girl on the left's earrings.
Thanks for sharing :))
I work both departments as an RN :)
In nursing school ER rotation was my favorite rotation I didn’t want to go home after my 12 hours 😂
But you have to come home so I can give you back rubs and feed you
@@davdez2704 little strange but alright lol
@@kaysiposey5975 life is strange chaos but i liked your comment! I'm a nursing student and I hope i find a place like that, i don't mind working long hours.
I am an ER nurse, I love organized chaos, and I can't just sit still. 😂
Tough decision!! I work so well under pressure but I am extremely organized 😩 I don’t know what to pick lol
Me !!!
If you are extremely organize and value that, then deff ICU. You most likely won’t see much organization in the ED and will most likely be stressed out by the amount of disorganized chaos in there. Most ICU patients are critical and you will get ample opportunities to promptly act when you know they are going downhill
ICU nurse here! We ARE EXTREMELY LUCKY IF WE HAVE ONLY 2 VERY UNSTABLE PATIENTS! THESE DAYS (ESPECIALLY COVID-19 TIMES) WE HAVE 3-4 PTS EACH ICU RN!
OUR ER NURSES HAVE ANYWHERE FROM 4-8 PTS. Don't ever work for a profit hospital! They'll crap all over you then punish you for doing a job well done!
What state do you live in if you don’t mind me asking?
Alright the ICU nurse is making it seem like ICU is all completely planned. She didn’t talk about all the drips we have to titrate, the complete level of care we provide that goes above and beyond what most ER nurses are trained to do, how the doctors are constantly asking you questions, how sometimes you may have to take 3 or 4 pts in the ICU if you are short, how sometimes you may have no PCT to help at all but you are still expected to provide COMPLETE care to all your pts whether you have 2 or 4, how many times you have to stay behind to chart because you had no time to sit down and chart through the whole 12 hours, and on and on
Love the 007 emergency nurses :- * So down to earth and friendly. Hats off to you for your brilliant life saving skiils. You are the Best!!! Personally I can't stand haughty,swollen headed ICU nurses. I care less what they do!
Honestly im between ICU, and ER. (Pediatrics preferably)
I’m 16 T-T
Loved this video. Thanks super informative. Im looking at the er nurse scrubs... interesting where she get them
They are from FIGS!
I want to go ER first and then give ICU a try
Advice for ED nurse of 9 years training to the icu?
Thanks for the video!!! I'm mid way through third semester accelerated BSN program. I have been trying to decide where I should focus myself and I've been leaning toward ER. However, I don't know if anyone will hire a new grad in the ER right off. Any suggestions on where to begin career as BSN RN so I can be well rounded and gain great skills to be solid, confident, capable, and marketable?! I am afraid if I go to something super specific I will pigeonhole myself there and was told it would be harder to find jobs if I don't have a good baseline of skills. thanks!
This was fun haha do more!!
thinking about ICU
I'm both an ICU and ER RN and completely understand both sides. My only problem with this post is - how many times I hear "like" in one sentence 🤣. Put on Closed Captioning and count how much "like" and "totally" are used in one sentence. God I hope she is truly a good nurse. There are other words such as FOR EXAMPLE instead of LIKE every other word. Wears me out. And slow your speed down.
ICU, but I'm at least 8 years away :(
ICU!
ICU
Icu all the way!
definitely ICU
ER definitely
This is so good. You guys do so much . Respect !
ICU Nursing!!
Er nursing is exciting
ER nurse here. That's cute. The other day I had 2 ICU patients plus 8 regular (impatient) patients. You really don't know pressure until you work in my ER.
Er nursing is what I want✨
Definitely ER!♥️
I’ve worked ICU and ER and I chose... school nursing. 😝
To the ICU nurse, dont you have a nursing assistant? They would do vitals and bed linens etc.
Not always. Just you and your neighbor. Our NA is a Unit Clerk plus helps transport
I wish! The CNA’s where I work think that all they have to do is stock and make excuses when the RN needs assistance especially the old ones. No punitive measures. The nurse literally does it all!
@@CakeLife2885 my wife is a Cna, she does all the dirty work. Previously she worked for a place were they had her drawing blood, Foley's, EKGS, type and cross, on top of everything else.
@Bryan Ball I’m an ICU nurse. There are no CNA’s or any type of nursing assistants in the ICU at the hospital where I work.
@@melaniesalmon9474 ugh, I'm sorry about that. You truly are the front line. Thank you for everything you do. I'm sure you're overwhelmed with patients.