Emergency Room Nursing

The fast paced world of Emergency room nursing is exciting, rewarding, and hard work. Emergency room nurses are responsible for treating patients who are experiencing illness, injury or trauma. Being a nurse means being able to think on your feet to solve a problem and execute a treatment plan. E.R nurses must have many different characteristics to be able to work in the emergency room. One characteristic is being able to handle a fast paced, constant change environment. Being in the E.R, things are always changing and there is no way to expect what who is walking through the door and what emergency they are bringing to you. Nursing in this department also requires a lot of structure. The staff has to be very by the books and follow procedure so the patient can be treated promptly and accordingly. Multi-facet knowledge is very strong characteristic as well because having the different aspects on each situation will benefit in determining a diagnosis.
In 1846 the first hospital training school for nurses, the Institute for Protestant Deaconesses, was established in the town of Kaiserwerth, Germany. America did not open the first nursing school until 1862, that school being The New England Hospital
An urgent care facility is classified as a walk-in type of clinic where patients whose injury or condition may not be critical enough for the hospital, but does require immediate care. Nurses that work in a helicopter can work civilian for hospitals, trauma and independent medical evacuation firms, or work military and fly into war stricken territories to evacuate people. On occasion, military flight nurses will live on the military base. A nurse working in the emergency room work in the emergency department of a hospital, they have the option to work in either emergency, trauma, or intensive