1. since drunk tanks are closed due to law suits, their drunk buts come to you where they are rude and pee all over the place.
2. The ER nurse has to deal with the person who had a cold for 1 month, never saw their family Doctor. This is the person who gets mad when you take a chest pain patient back before them.
3. If you work in a facility with no PSY capabilities, you will have to keep the drug OD's and crazy's in your ER and it ties up beds for 2 days.
4. Remember, as an ER nurse your job is to get the doc to get people out as fast as possible. If the patient is in the ER too long they will find another problem for you to treat or a family member will say, "Since I am here I guess I will be seen also."
5. Then you deal with the person who comes into the ER when the waiting room is full on Sunday night. They start yelling, I have chest pain." So you move a patient into the hall so you have a cardiac room to put the patient in. You rush the patient into the room and start your O2 placing pt on monitors. At that point the ER doc rushes into the room and asked what is wrong sir? Pt replies, "I have had back pain all week and need an off work slip for tomorrow."(some one did this to me once.