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 a long time ER nurse. I spent some time in ICU as well. For me, I can’t stand the idea of knowing what my patients whole day is going to look like. I prefer to have you just keep throwing things at me, and I will take them as they come. I will say this. If you are a new nurse, ER is fun! ER is exciting! The things that you see and do down here will change the way you look at the world. ICU Will be a continuation of your growth and learning. I would encourage any new nurse who wants to develop themselves into being the best all-around nurse they can be to do a stent in ICU before you put yourself in the backwards environment that is ER.
@@heatherlaurenRN Yes! I feel like once your in your last semester you'll have a better idea of where you want to work. I also have a nursing youtube channel that can help you along the way. Please check it out and subscribe;)
I'm confused. So it is best to start in ICU, then go to the ER or vice-versa. I've just started nursing school and people are already asking me where I want to go. I want to take my time to decide but it's wonderful to get tips like yours. :-)
@@mircavalcante9308 I guess in my opinion it depends on your goals. I think most people who love working ICU don’t like working ER, & likewise most of us who love working ER don’t like working ICU. They are completely different environments. As you move through your nursing education pay attention to what you like to do. The right choice for you will make itself clear. The point I was trying to make in that first comment is that starting in ICU will build on what you learned in nursing school. Starting in ER will almost require you to unlearn what you learned in school. Things like head to toe assessments & care plans are nonexistent in ER. ER is save them, stabilize them, get them out. ICU is more maintaining or restoring homeostasis. ICU is extremely detail oriented. I hate it. Good luck on your journey
Jesus lied and said, "Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.' (Matthew 16:28) Now how could he be the son of god if he said he was coming back 2000 years ago? The bible condones slavery. Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property. (Exodus 21:20). According to the genealogies in the bible, the earth is about 6000 years old, disproven by fossil records and history.
You have a strong gut. I recently took my ex to the E.R. when he thought he had testicular cancer (which wasn't even an urgent emergency ugh..). Then, I saw this lady barf her guts out and I was like nope, not going further inside. I'll just wait out here for you until they call your name and it's your turn lol. Sorry to who ever that was. I hope she is okay now and that she is alive and better but damn..
ICU nurse here and couldn’t be more grateful of my experiences. I salute ER nurses for their time management and grace under immense pressure but my heart belongs to ICU. I love seeing my long term patients (even post code ones) back to health and even becoming as normal as they are. It keeps my interest to know the beginning and ending of certain diseases or conditions. My critical thinking has been sharped and the growth is just always there, like there’s so much to learn every day.
neo chenle technology u can apply to vacancy in the area you want to work in i.e ER, ICU but it would normally say on the job description what ward or part of the ER they would be working in
As ER nurse, i think violence is pretty huge too in this setting -- unstable mental health patients or acute delrium. It can be challenging managing those in terms of our safety!
I love being organized and knowing what to do so definitely ICU (that was my plan anyway), I feel like I would have major anxiety if I were to be in the ER lol. But in any case, nursing is awesome and as a fellow LPN, so excited to continue on in my journey and one day be a ICU nurse
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.
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.
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.
We fly critical patients from the scene accidents, etc to hospitals. Or from a hospital to a hospital with specialized care. We typically fly with a paramedic or another nurse.
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 was an ICU/CCU nurse in the beginning days of ICU the late 70’s. I loved it. I hated to get pulled to ER so much. The not knowing what was coming through the door was too stressful. I’m a Capricorn that likes her ducks in a row. You at least got a report before the patient arrived in ICU so you could mentally prepare.
As an ER nurse myself, what I wish I knew about this specialty is the bulk of your patients will be psychiatric patients. And working in emergency medicine has a very high risk for physical violence among the staff that work in it.
A few helpful hints: - Do good in school high school (take AP classes and as many science classes as you can), opens the door to more scholarships & less loan debt (nursing school is not cheap and it's difficult to commit to working a lot of hours while in nsg school) - after completing nursing school work on a Med/Surg floor for a minimum of 1 year. Let your manager know your interests in other field, after you've been working there > 6 months. Your manager may be willing to float you to that unit, if pt census allows. This provides the chance to see if that is truly something you want and lets you find out if the atmosphere and your future co-workers are a good a good fit for you. - keep an open mind. There are so many opportunities for nurses in and out of the hospital setting. Good luck! Being an RN is am amazing job filled w/ pride, joy, sorrow, frustration and accountability. Going home at the end of a grueling shift, but know you made a difference or even saved a person's life is so rewarding and definitely worth it!
I think I would have to choose ICU! I like the idea of things being much more organized and knowing what is to be done and expected for the day. I'm not sure that I could handle the organized chaos like Liz...(:
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 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
This was so helpful. I’m finally going to be starting nursing school. I have always thought I wanted to be in the ER because I worked well with organized chaos in the military. This has just confirmed the ER might be for me!
ICU NURSE HERE! WE HAVE 3-4 PTS/NIGHT! IT'S INSANE! ESPECIALLY DURING THESE COVID TIMES! I VERY RARELY HAVE ONLY 2 PTS UNLESS THEY ARE 2 VERY EXTREMELY UNSTABLE PTS & WE NEVER EVER EVER GET ONE PT PER NURSE! EVER!
@@janetperez26 This topic is so over played on TH-cam. It's definitely a spin off of the most popular nurses on YT, The Nurse Nook and Fatima Francesca who did a very popular video on ER vs ICU. It's really not a needed topic. It would be like comparing peds to med surg or OB to Psych. Obviously they are all vastly different lol. Just an attempt at a clickable topic is all...it's called clickbait in the YT world.
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
Retired ICU nurse from a hospital that was not a trauma center , except we had a burn unit so that could keep us running as they would transfer out more stable, post op burns to us to make a room for a new burn when needed. We would also sometimes be pulled to the burn unit when they needed staff, which was always a learning experience. In our ICU we typically had 2 patients , rarely 3 patients but if you had to staff someone a third patient it was important to consider the acuity of all 3 of them & definitely not assign someone 2 patients & an empty bed as those empty beds often filled with very acute patients. I do miss the ICU and that it was never dull , the saying "never a dull moment" definitely applied to my job.
As an ICU nurse, it's ICU all the way! Although the most love I've felt is when I floated to ER one day. It was incredible! My respect goes out to every person in the hospital, it's a team effort!
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!!!
ICU! Both bc I have experience on a pulmonary unit with vented pts and bc I live in a small town and I wouldn’t want to see someone I know come from a trauma before they were stabilized.
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. 😊
I am a float RN and have been to all units in my hospital. So far, I really like the ICU because they are more organized and the charting system is easier to use. The ER is great because you experience so much but I feel like where I work, the charting system needs some work and there are a lot of mental health/drug user patients that end up boarding in the ER for days at a time before being placed. Sometimes the assignment is all boarders so it is like being a floor nurse some days.
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.
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
I've been an ICU nurse for several years and have been thinking about going to the ED this year. Thanks for this video, so helpful! The idea of having more than 2 ICU pts definitely freaks me out but as long as I never have to do chg baths again I'm good LOL
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.
I have a better appreciation for nurses especially ICU nurses. My aunt was in the ICU for about a month. They didn't believe she would live but still treated her with dignity. Once she started recovery and was basically delirious they were patient with her. They let us send her things so she knew we were thinking of her. She left with new friends and promises to go back and say thank you once she is strong enough. I'm studying to be a nurse and have my mind set on psychology but I'm interested to experience the ICU and ER.
I’m a CVICU RN and I am way too organized and detail oriented to ever work ER! Plus I love my ECMO, impella, IABP, CRRT, CVOR patients! Love my coworkers in ER! They’re amazing!!!
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"
Great and informative video. Happy that I found your channel. I will be starting my new position in the ICU as a new RN. I’ve been an LPN for 4 years. I’m a bit nervous, but excited to build on my nursing foundation.
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 an ICU but it was such a difficult decision for me to choose between ER and ICU nursing, I chose ICU because I’m a very meticulous person and like getting to know my patients! However I wouldn’t mind diving into ER nursing sometime throughout my career!
You should definitely try ER nursing at some point just get a taste of it! If you enjoy getting to know your patients then going ICU was the right decision 💪💪 Thanks for watching the video!
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 🥺❤️💖
this was helpful! thank you :) i feel like i had a feeling ER was more chaotic just cause you have trauma coming in right away but it’s nice to hear firsthand
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 ??
What hospital are you from?. This is lovely to see the ICU RN understanding that the ER RN can't necessarily do everything that is scheduled. A very good explanation about the difference between these two very important and distinct specialities in nursing.
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..
It’s probably based on acuity and where you work. Where I work, acute side usually 4:1 or 5:1 max because there’s no physical place to put more. Trauma 2:1/3:1 max and the ambulatory area might get as many as 18:1 sometimes even more.
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!!
Worked in the ER for a bit and starting ICU in april this year. It's so diffenrent in my country, in the ER i had to care for up to 30 pts myself, damn i would have been bored with 4 lol, in my ICU we have 3-4 pts per nurse, that sounds like a blessing to me.
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.
Continued. He had the butterfly IV’s on each arms which were showing issues with his lungs and blood pressure plus numerous other large IVS INCLUDING TWO HUGE tubes that went into hat looked like a big opening in his neck that was always leaking blood no matter the dressings around it as well honestly it was horrific to see all the tubes going into him and then there were 12 of thise constant medicine machines delivering delivering 12 different meds at all times thru the the ivs which we were told was what the support keeping him alive anyway when he called me( him and I were super close I have always been my daddy’s girl and over the last many years I had been going over on the weekends when my hubby would go outta town to do maintenance on our large cabin & id spend the weekend with my parents which my mom had developed Alzheimer’s and had chronic pain but also had dealt with a life of addiction to opioid pain meds & was now being seen at a pain clinic , my dad shockingly retired to take care of her and he took such amazing care of her and being my dad never had much patience growing up had really developed this amazing sense of caring and extreme patience with her although he never believed in any pain meds he did not want her in pain & was an amazing care giver to my mom which surprised us all but we knew it was hard on him cuz she was very demanding and needy yet he spoiled her!! Even though my dad had really started to have his own issues with prior heart attack and many stents, severe arthritis, something with his hips that would shoot to his toes that made it extremely painful to walk & then he developed this- continue 2 3:50
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 🤘🤘
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.
I am not a nurse-a happy special education teacher here, but if were an ER nurse, I would probably prefer ICU over ER just for the chance to build relationships with the patients and families which seems less likely to happen in the ER. I would also be a little nervous that violence which may have brought a patient to the ER would follow them there . Does that happen often?
Both areas are super Excellent areas of Nursing from what I've learned. I believe for me I'm more Geared for E.R. nursing die to my Military 🎖️🪖 Marine Corps Background. Fast paced controlled chaos etc..
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’m a labor and delivery nurse, and I’d choose ER nursing. I feel like it’s closest to L&D; we also have triage, we also sometimes don’t know what will walk through the door, etc
Melissa Smith I actually am fresh out of school (I’m 22) and I ended up in L&D! Sometimes if you do well enough/network well enough/search hard enough you can absolutely go straight into L&D! It’s just tougher. And yes! The ER was my second choice if I didn’t get L&D. Many people choose mother baby, which is totally fine but because L&D (at least at my hospital) can be very intense and fast paced, I thought the ER would better prepare me for the pace/rapid assessments!
juliet Thank you for responding! That’s awesome, congratulations! I really want to work in women’s health when I finish school, so I’m definitely trying to do what I can to get there (L&D, OB, fertility, etc)
Both require a special kind of person! Look at NP school. Most require ICU experience and the only thing they will take in place of that experience is ER. My goal is NICU but if I can’t get in a NICU as a new grad I’d like to do peds ER
Actually NP school will accept any kind of nursing experience. CRNA school will only accept ICU experience although some will accept ER experience from a high level (Level 1 Trauma, Stroke Center, etc...) ER. Good luck with becoming a NICU nurse, that’s what I’d like to do as well.
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.
Can you tell me about icu ? Are the doctors at the bedside with you like they are in ER? How often do you have pts die or come close to it ? Do you work adults or neonatal ? Is it hard emotionally? What are skills and good traits to have in that setting ? Are ICUs quiet(in sound) ? I’m a nursing student about to graduate and know I wouldn’t be able to do ER but am to a degree considering working in the NICU it’s the rotation that has most of my interest out of all my rotations so far. Pros and cons? Be as honest as possible pleeeaaassse
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 EVS for 7 years, and I love the ICU nurses. They all curse, are tough as nails, and very straight forward. They always say what they mean, and will even stick their neck out for other staff members. I remember a room was incorrectly marked as C-diff and my boss demanded I still run the UV light but I didn't have time for it. The ICU nurse grabbed the phone, talked to my boss, and told them to stuff it. Those ICU nurses are not people I'd want to mess with.
Hi i guess i have the best of both worlds, I'm an ER Nurse and i also provide coverage to the ICU as well so i have first had experience in both units. However my love is Emergency i guess this develop from being in EMS as a medic for quite sometime.
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
Correction: I guess it’s not called a butterfly it’s called something else but it has many different rubber things that the nurses will pull on when the numbers on the screen look bad and I thing they said it literally goes thru the lungs and heart to monitor them directly and on each part with the red rubber piece it has a port access I wish I could remember the name but my dad had one in each of his upper arms plus many other large ivs which could have been a picc line or other caths but he had a ton cuz I have no veins thanks to all my medical issues including Afib & I’ve had numerous picc lines and centra lines and my doc ordered a port for access cuz I have many procedures & surgeries and it takes many specialists & hours to get an iv on me plus with y heart and high risk of major heart attack I wanted them to always have a quick access for life saving meds just in case but after seeing my dad I cancelled my appt for the port cuz one port obviously is not even close to being Enuf so I said ffff it if it’s my time it’s my time and I miss my dad so much& every moment of everyday my heart hurts so bad that it wouldn’t be the worst thing to be with him again. So I’m handing it over to god, he can take the wheel. 7:46
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 a long time ER nurse. I spent some time in ICU as well. For me, I can’t stand the idea of knowing what my patients whole day is going to look like. I prefer to have you just keep throwing things at me, and I will take them as they come.
I will say this. If you are a new nurse, ER is fun! ER is exciting! The things that you see and do down here will change the way you look at the world. ICU Will be a continuation of your growth and learning. I would encourage any new nurse who wants to develop themselves into being the best all-around nurse they can be to do a stent in ICU before you put yourself in the backwards environment that is ER.
great advice, thank you!! still trying to decide what kind or nurse I want to be. but i have time, im only in my second semester of RN school.
@@heatherlaurenRN Yes! I feel like once your in your last semester you'll have a better idea of where you want to work. I also have a nursing youtube channel that can help you along the way. Please check it out and subscribe;)
Thanks for the advice. Starting ICU soon.
I'm confused. So it is best to start in ICU, then go to the ER or vice-versa. I've just started nursing school and people are already asking me where I want to go. I want to take my time to decide but it's wonderful to get tips like yours. :-)
@@mircavalcante9308 I guess in my opinion it depends on your goals. I think most people who love working ICU don’t like working ER, & likewise most of us who love working ER don’t like working ICU. They are completely different environments. As you move through your nursing education pay attention to what you like to do. The right choice for you will make itself clear.
The point I was trying to make in that first comment is that starting in ICU will build on what you learned in nursing school. Starting in ER will almost require you to unlearn what you learned in school.
Things like head to toe assessments & care plans are nonexistent in ER.
ER is save them, stabilize them, get them out. ICU is more maintaining or restoring homeostasis.
ICU is extremely detail oriented. I hate it.
Good luck on your journey
I’m an ER nurse. Love the saying “Jack of all trades, master of none.” 😂
ER nurse her too, thats so true lol
Not true. Master of “organized chaos” and juggler of all trades. love the comparison between the two. I’ve worked both sides. 👍
Haha
Jesus lied and said, "Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.' (Matthew 16:28) Now how could he be the son of god if he said he was coming back 2000 years ago? The bible condones slavery. Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property. (Exodus 21:20). According to the genealogies in the bible, the earth is about 6000 years old, disproven by fossil records and history.
You have a strong gut. I recently took my ex to the E.R. when he thought he had testicular cancer (which wasn't even an urgent emergency ugh..). Then, I saw this lady barf her guts out and I was like nope, not going further inside. I'll just wait out here for you until they call your name and it's your turn lol. Sorry to who ever that was. I hope she is okay now and that she is alive and better but damn..
ICU nurse here and couldn’t be more grateful of my experiences. I salute ER nurses for their time management and grace under immense pressure but my heart belongs to ICU. I love seeing my long term patients (even post code ones) back to health and even becoming as normal as they are. It keeps my interest to know the beginning and ending of certain diseases or conditions. My critical thinking has been sharped and the growth is just always there, like there’s so much to learn every day.
ER RN here and i wouldn't be a floor nurse ever lol i dont want to be paging doctors id rather have them right there at bedside like we do in the ER
Can nurses choose where they want to be assigned?
neo chenle technology u can apply to vacancy in the area you want to work in i.e ER, ICU but it would normally say on the job description what ward or part of the ER they would be working in
Floor nursing is lackluster and boring. ER is better for sure
khyoon14 are you a nurse?
you still need to page the PGY1s ....if the patients are admitted..loll
As ER nurse, i think violence is pretty huge too in this setting -- unstable mental health patients or acute delrium. It can be challenging managing those in terms of our safety!
I work at a hospital as a cook, and the amount of code greys being called is ridiculous average 6 per shift.
I love being organized and knowing what to do so definitely ICU (that was my plan anyway), I feel like I would have major anxiety if I were to be in the ER lol. But in any case, nursing is awesome and as a fellow LPN, so excited to continue on in my journey and one day be a ICU nurse
We wish you the best in your journey to becoming an awesome ICU nurse!!
I love the idea of being an ICU. I love structure and I can be rigid lol
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’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
You and your fellow nurses are all heroes, regardless of any label. THANK YOU for all you do!
This must be heavy I respect both
Both have their unique challenges for sure!
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.
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.
I don’t miss any of it at all!
Flight Nursing is where it’s at!
ONE patient at a time... and there’s two of us to take care of her/him!
But did you see our flight fly along video?!
What us flight nursing?
We fly critical patients from the scene accidents, etc to hospitals. Or from a hospital to a hospital with specialized care. We typically fly with a paramedic or another nurse.
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 was an ICU/CCU nurse in the beginning days of ICU the late 70’s. I loved it. I hated to get pulled to ER so much. The not knowing what was coming through the door was too stressful. I’m a Capricorn that likes her ducks in a row. You at least got a report before the patient arrived in ICU so you could mentally prepare.
ER sounds like the thing for me! Organized Chaos
Yes!! You never know what to expect
Sometimes organized.... sometimes, just chaos.
You say that now......
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AMEN - hair on 🔥 till I retire 😉
I know I’m only 12 but I was thinking about being an ER nurse and this sounds like it’s the job for me! Thank u for this it’s so informative! :)
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You will need to make sure you stay out of trouble so you can get your nursing license.
As an ER nurse myself, what I wish I knew about this specialty is the bulk of your patients will be psychiatric patients. And working in emergency medicine has a very high risk for physical violence among the staff that work in it.
A few helpful hints:
- Do good in school high school (take AP classes and as many science classes as you can), opens the door to more scholarships & less loan debt (nursing school is not cheap and it's difficult to commit to working a lot of hours while in nsg school)
- after completing nursing school work on a Med/Surg floor for a minimum of 1 year. Let your manager know your interests in other field, after you've been working there > 6 months. Your manager may be willing to float you to that unit, if pt census allows. This provides the chance to see if that is truly something you want and lets you find out if the atmosphere and your future co-workers are a good a good fit for you.
- keep an open mind. There are so many opportunities for nurses in and out of the hospital setting.
Good luck! Being an RN is am amazing job filled w/ pride, joy, sorrow, frustration and accountability. Going home at the end of a grueling shift, but know you made a difference or even saved a person's life is so rewarding and definitely worth it!
You can do it!!
I wish more ICU nurses were as understanding of what us ER nurses deal with!💓
I get like 8 or more patients in the ER. Getting 4 is gonna be like a breathe of fresh air!
I think I would have to choose ICU! I like the idea of things being much more organized and knowing what is to be done and expected for the day. I'm not sure that I could handle the organized chaos like Liz...(:
There’s always options! I personally love the Chaos Liz talked about but there’s plenty of folks who love the organized ICU setting too
Don’t take this wrong...but as a med surg nurse I can tell ya most of us would prefer ICU. It’s the dream 😂
Coming from a respiratory therapist. I loveeee my icu nurses ❤ You learn a lot more in the icu.
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 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
ER RN. I love the unknown of what's about to fly through the door. My motto, "Hair on 🔥 till I retire"
I am starting nursing school Aug 31st and my dream job is to become an ER Nurse in a trauma 1 hospital!!!!
This was so helpful. I’m finally going to be starting nursing school. I have always thought I wanted to be in the ER because I worked well with organized chaos in the military. This has just confirmed the ER might be for me!
I´m currently studying and i must say that definitely ER caught my attention
First advertised video that was worth clicking on. Really interesting and informative!
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Very NOT TRUE!
ICU NURSE HERE! WE HAVE 3-4 PTS/NIGHT! IT'S INSANE! ESPECIALLY DURING THESE COVID TIMES!
I VERY RARELY HAVE ONLY 2 PTS UNLESS THEY ARE 2 VERY EXTREMELY UNSTABLE PTS & WE NEVER EVER EVER GET ONE PT PER NURSE! EVER!
Jan Grossman this definitely depends on the facility! I know many places that strictly have 2 patients per nurse unless they are VERY short staffed..
@@janetperez26 This topic is so over played on TH-cam. It's definitely a spin off of the most popular nurses on YT, The Nurse Nook and Fatima Francesca who did a very popular video on ER vs ICU. It's really not a needed topic. It would be like comparing peds to med surg or OB to Psych. Obviously they are all vastly different lol. Just an attempt at a clickable topic is all...it's called clickbait in the YT world.
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
Retired ICU nurse from a hospital that was not a trauma center , except we had a burn unit so that could keep us running as they would transfer out more stable, post op burns to us to make a room for a new burn when needed. We would also sometimes be pulled to the burn unit when they needed staff, which was always a learning experience. In our ICU we typically had 2 patients , rarely 3 patients but if you had to staff someone a third patient it was important to consider the acuity of all 3 of them & definitely not assign someone 2 patients & an empty bed as those empty beds often filled with very acute patients. I do miss the ICU and that it was never dull , the saying "never a dull moment" definitely applied to my job.
I start nursing school in January and I'm looking forward to being a nurse in the ER!!
As an ICU nurse, it's ICU all the way!
Although the most love I've felt is when I floated to ER one day. It was incredible! My respect goes out to every person in the hospital, it's a team effort!
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!!!
I would definitely chose ICU!
ICU! Both bc I have experience on a pulmonary unit with vented pts and bc I live in a small town and I wouldn’t want to see someone I know come from a trauma before they were stabilized.
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. 😊
I am a float RN and have been to all units in my hospital. So far, I really like the ICU because they are more organized and the charting system is easier to use. The ER is great because you experience so much but I feel like where I work, the charting system needs some work and there are a lot of mental health/drug user patients that end up boarding in the ER for days at a time before being placed. Sometimes the assignment is all boarders so it is like being a floor nurse some days.
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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Just accepted my first job in the STICU! This video solidified ICU nursing for me, no doubt. Thank you guys for your amazing work!!!
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.
probably ER nursing, it seems more interesting and fast paced
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
I've been an ICU nurse for several years and have been thinking about going to the ED this year. Thanks for this video, so helpful! The idea of having more than 2 ICU pts definitely freaks me out but as long as I never have to do chg baths again I'm good LOL
What’s CHG?
Just changed my major from Psychology to Nursing. This was a great video. Thanks for posting!
I think I still want to be an ER nurse. I have always wanted to do that! Thanks for the insight!
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.
I have a better appreciation for nurses especially ICU nurses. My aunt was in the ICU for about a month. They didn't believe she would live but still treated her with dignity. Once she started recovery and was basically delirious they were patient with her. They let us send her things so she knew we were thinking of her. She left with new friends and promises to go back and say thank you once she is strong enough. I'm studying to be a nurse and have my mind set on psychology but I'm interested to experience the ICU and ER.
I’m a CVICU RN and I am way too organized and detail oriented to ever work ER! Plus I love my ECMO, impella, IABP, CRRT, CVOR patients! Love my coworkers in ER! They’re amazing!!!
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 💪🏼
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"
Coming from an ICU nurse, ICU ALL THE WAYY😆
That’s exactly what I was going to say. Same here ICU all the way !!
i am an ER Nurse , ER is life. spontaneous and challenging. an ER nurse can handle any specialty / any emergency
Great and informative video. Happy that I found your channel. I will be starting my new position in the ICU as a new RN. I’ve been an LPN for 4 years. I’m a bit nervous, but excited to build on my nursing foundation.
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 an ICU but it was such a difficult decision for me to choose between ER and ICU nursing, I chose ICU because I’m a very meticulous person and like getting to know my patients! However I wouldn’t mind diving into ER nursing sometime throughout my career!
You should definitely try ER nursing at some point just get a taste of it! If you enjoy getting to know your patients then going ICU was the right decision 💪💪 Thanks for watching the video!
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
ER Nursing! I am going to be doing my High Acuity lecture next semester which should be interesting
this was helpful! thank you :) i feel like i had a feeling ER was more chaotic just cause you have trauma coming in right away but it’s nice to hear firsthand
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.
Planning on becoming an ER nurse. It sounds fast paced and is what I really look forward to doing.
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What hospital are you from?. This is lovely to see the ICU RN understanding that the ER RN can't necessarily do everything that is scheduled. A very good explanation about the difference between these two very important and distinct specialities in nursing.
100% ICU.. I can’t do the chaos. I need strict organization with my OCD lol
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 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.
Done both for 15 years each. Love both sides. 2 rooms would of been nice. I have had 6 rooms for ER and more than 2 patients in ICU when we were short
4:1 sounds really nice actually. Our ER doesn't have the staffing for that!
It’s probably based on acuity and where you work. Where I work, acute side usually 4:1 or 5:1 max because there’s no physical place to put more. Trauma 2:1/3:1 max and the ambulatory area might get as many as 18:1 sometimes even more.
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!!
Only 1 of them will be accepted to the CRNA Program (the Crème de la Crème of all Nursing)
Guess which one?
Worked in the ER for a bit and starting ICU in april this year. It's so diffenrent in my country, in the ER i had to care for up to 30 pts myself, damn i would have been bored with 4 lol, in my ICU we have 3-4 pts per nurse, that sounds like a blessing to me.
I'm a PACU RN in australia and I'd say is a perfect mix of ED and ICU!
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.
Continued. He had the butterfly IV’s on each arms which were showing issues with his lungs and blood pressure plus numerous other large IVS INCLUDING TWO HUGE tubes that went into hat looked like a big opening in his neck that was always leaking blood no matter the dressings around it as well honestly it was horrific to see all the tubes going into him and then there were 12 of thise constant medicine machines delivering delivering 12 different meds at all times thru the the ivs which we were told was what the support keeping him alive anyway when he called me( him and I were super close I have always been my daddy’s girl and over the last many years I had been going over on the weekends when my hubby would go outta town to do maintenance on our large cabin & id spend the weekend with my parents which my mom had developed Alzheimer’s and had chronic pain but also had dealt with a life of addiction to opioid pain meds & was now being seen at a pain clinic , my dad shockingly retired to take care of her and he took such amazing care of her and being my dad never had much patience growing up had really developed this amazing sense of caring and extreme patience with her although he never believed in any pain meds he did not want her in pain & was an amazing care giver to my mom which surprised us all but we knew it was hard on him cuz she was very demanding and needy yet he spoiled her!! Even though my dad had really started to have his own issues with prior heart attack and many stents, severe arthritis, something with his hips that would shoot to his toes that made it extremely painful to walk & then he developed this- continue 2 3:50
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 🤘🤘
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.
I am not a nurse-a happy special education teacher here, but if were an ER nurse, I would probably prefer ICU over ER just for the chance to build relationships with the patients and families which seems less likely to happen in the ER. I would also be a little nervous that violence which may have brought a patient to the ER would follow them there . Does that happen often?
Both areas are super Excellent areas of Nursing from what I've learned.
I believe for me I'm more Geared for E.R. nursing die to my Military 🎖️🪖 Marine Corps Background. Fast paced controlled chaos etc..
I was ER Trauma, Orthopedics and Neurology.
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’m a labor and delivery nurse, and I’d choose ER nursing. I feel like it’s closest to L&D; we also have triage, we also sometimes don’t know what will walk through the door, etc
Since L&D can be hard to get into out of school, would you recommend starting in the ER?
Melissa Smith I actually am fresh out of school (I’m 22) and I ended up in L&D! Sometimes if you do well enough/network well enough/search hard enough you can absolutely go straight into L&D! It’s just tougher.
And yes! The ER was my second choice if I didn’t get L&D. Many people choose mother baby, which is totally fine but because L&D (at least at my hospital) can be very intense and fast paced, I thought the ER would better prepare me for the pace/rapid assessments!
juliet Thank you for responding! That’s awesome, congratulations! I really want to work in women’s health when I finish school, so I’m definitely trying to do what I can to get there (L&D, OB, fertility, etc)
Both require a special kind of person! Look at NP school. Most require ICU experience and the only thing they will take in place of that experience is ER. My goal is NICU but if I can’t get in a NICU as a new grad I’d like to do peds ER
Actually NP school will accept any kind of nursing experience. CRNA school will only accept ICU experience although some will accept ER experience from a high level (Level 1 Trauma, Stroke Center, etc...) ER. Good luck with becoming a NICU nurse, that’s what I’d like to do as well.
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.
ICU! I like having as much control as possible! lol
Can you tell me about icu ?
Are the doctors at the bedside with you like they are in ER?
How often do you have pts die or come close to it ?
Do you work adults or neonatal ?
Is it hard emotionally?
What are skills and good traits to have in that setting ?
Are ICUs quiet(in sound) ?
I’m a nursing student about to graduate and know I wouldn’t be able to do ER but am to a degree considering working in the NICU it’s the rotation that has most of my interest out of all my rotations so far.
Pros and cons? Be as honest as possible pleeeaaassse
Love this video!!!!! And the conversation is something I'd wanna be a part of as an aspiring ER nurse
ICU but would love to work in the ER just to see how it is.
Wow the nurses at my job (nursing home) sometimes have 22 patients, “residents” at once.
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.
ER Nurse for me, I have worked ER 5 years and love the organized chaos!
I'm a nursing student with previous EMS training/work experience and intend to work in both ICU & ER once I get my RN, so this video is helpful to me.
I've worked EVS for 7 years, and I love the ICU nurses. They all curse, are tough as nails, and very straight forward. They always say what they mean, and will even stick their neck out for other staff members. I remember a room was incorrectly marked as C-diff and my boss demanded I still run the UV light but I didn't have time for it. The ICU nurse grabbed the phone, talked to my boss, and told them to stuff it. Those ICU nurses are not people I'd want to mess with.
Hi i guess i have the best of both worlds, I'm an ER Nurse and i also provide coverage to the ICU as well so i have first had experience in both units. However my love is Emergency i guess this develop from being in EMS as a medic for quite sometime.
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
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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ER for sure...love the fast pace environment.
Organized Chaos......perfect description of ER!!
Correction: I guess it’s not called a butterfly it’s called something else but it has many different rubber things that the nurses will pull on when the numbers on the screen look bad and I thing they said it literally goes thru the lungs and heart to monitor them directly and on each part with the red rubber piece it has a port access I wish I could remember the name but my dad had one in each of his upper arms plus many other large ivs which could have been a picc line or other caths but he had a ton cuz I have no veins thanks to all my medical issues including Afib & I’ve had numerous picc lines and centra lines and my doc ordered a port for access cuz I have many procedures & surgeries and it takes many specialists & hours to get an iv on me plus with y heart and high risk of major heart attack I wanted them to always have a quick access for life saving meds just in case but after seeing my dad I cancelled my appt for the port cuz one port obviously is not even close to being Enuf so I said ffff it if it’s my time it’s my time and I miss my dad so much& every moment of everyday my heart hurts so bad that it wouldn’t be the worst thing to be with him again. So I’m handing it over to god, he can take the wheel. 7:46
Thank you both I was in icu for 12 days on a ventalter for 10
Both are critical thinkers ❤and are so valued ❤❤❤