Better pay, but many similar issues for ER nurses. Worse pay sometimes for ER techs than EMS but still all the emotional strain.
I’ll never forget the night when my wife was 8 months pregnant and we had an inbound unknown 30 something 8 month pregnant pt, MV vs Ped, intubated in field GCS of 6. The 13 minutes it took for them to get that pt there, my wife not replying to texts, being in a schrodingers box of has our life just drastically changed and if so how much…. There’s plenty of other things that have gotten to me but that night hit me hard, even when she got there and I found out it wasn’t my wife, but I had to see a couple’s life change badly that could have been us.
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Better pay, but many similar issues for ER nurses. Worse pay sometimes for ER techs than EMS but still all the emotional strain.
I’ll never forget the night when my wife was 8 months pregnant and we had an inbound unknown 30 something 8 month pregnant pt, MV vs Ped, intubated in field GCS of 6. The 13 minutes it took for them to get that pt there, my wife not replying to texts, being in a schrodingers box of has our life just drastically changed and if so how much…. There’s plenty of other things that have gotten to me but that night hit me hard, even when she got there and I found out it wasn’t my wife, but I had to see a couple’s life change badly that could have been us.