hi friends. I’m hopping on here for a little rant as the beginning of hold season is upon us in the ER. feel free to join in with any thoughts, i just need to get this off my chest. i am just frustrated sometimes because i feel like no matter where i turn, ER nurses are always getting yelled at by someone for something. for example, here’s some things i got yelled at for this week: - the wait in the WR was too long - the wait for an inpatient bed is too long - my admission went upstairs & i didn’t give her her 9pm meds (she went upstairs at 10:15 & i had 3 new pts, 1 who was critical care) - i paged the wrong hospitalist - EMS had to wait for me to clean a room - my ICU patient wasn’t sick enough - my other ICU patient had a bowel movement while in CT after i spent 35 minutes cleaning up the first BM (resuscitated arrest so IYKYK) - i paged IV team because i couldn’t get a line - meal trays are always late/missing/inedible/wrong - i didn’t know when my pt last ate or drank (down to the minute…….) the list goes on & on, I’m not even going to touch on the psych or intoxicated patients that we get because that’s a whole different beast. patients & family will yell at you because they have to wait for a room in the ED & then have to wait for a room upstairs. some med surg nurses will yell at you for not giving meemaw’s omeprazole before she goes upstairs. specialists come to the ED for admitted patients & expect you to be able to drop everything & help with whatever they may need. charge nurses annoyed you can’t take another patient. all while expecting you to handle 1 or more critical care patient, getting new pts, doing tasks, cleaning rooms, answering call bells, ambulating pts, etc. i could go on & on. don’t get me wrong, i do love my job. but it is so disheartening because we don’t get breaks, we don’t get lunches, i barely have time to use the bathroom. i do usually 15k+ steps in my 12 hour shift. there’s little to no float nurses to help, & everyone is strapped with their own SICK patients & really don’t have time to lend a hand. & then to add on top of that, everyone yells at you & it is always your fault. it just makes me sad sometimes because we are trying our best & still get the short end of the stick when anything goes wrong or is a minor inconvenience. we are also expected to know everything about everything, know all inpatient orders & tests (which we have no training on). we have about 1 bathroom for every 8 patients (far from their rooms). & we don’t get normal meal service, so all we have is the classic turkey sandwich or if you’re LUCKY the kitchen will deliver some weird, generic salad👍🏼 just makes for an overall terrible environment to hold admitted patients. & believe me, i have so much respect for med surg & critical care nurses, i could not do what you do & i appreciate all the wonderful work & care you provide. i genuinely am so grateful for you all. anyway, this rant was kinda pointless, i just had to get it off my chest & see if anyone else experiences these things? again, 0 hate to other specialties, i love you all & i don’t take these things home & get mad about them, just sometimes when i answer the phone to a nurse ripping me a new one for not straight cathing the pt with a hip fracture (who is going to the OR & will get a foley), i just want to scream gibberish into the phone & hang up. that’s all, thanks for reading