Career in Emergency Nursing - Do you like living on the edge? Do you feel a need for constant change? Can you handle stress under pressure?

Nurses in the emergency room setting must be assertive self starters who can multitask under pressure. They must have the ability to think out of the box and manage a variety of incoming emergent cases simultaneously. Emergency room nurses have great latitude in freedom of practice and decision making as compared to floor nurses and physicians and nurses work closely side by side depending on each other to provide timely and effective care of incoming urgent cases.

Patients arrive by car, bus, taxi, rescue, and helicopter and a valued quick response can determine the outcome of: near death, traumatized victim, motor vehicle accidents, penetrating wounds, crushing injuries, burns, broken bones, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart attacks, and even fevers. Emergency nursing involves responding quickly to a wide variety of single and multi-system complaints involving different patient needs, ages, cultures, and severity of presenting symptoms. The emergency room nurse must respond with decisiveness and clarity to unexpected events by assessing, intervening, and stabilizing patients about whom there is minimal and sometimes no information. Emergency nursing is an ever evolving practice of stamina, knowledge, ability to respond quickly, and practice of self assurance to meet the fast paced demands of the constant influx of patients.

If you can meet this criteria you may have what it takes to experience the challenging career as an emergency room nurse.