Isn’t it ironic. The ED nurses I talk to have similar stories about the ED Docs!

Let me give you my thoughts why we don’t get along. This is coming from an 8 year firefighter EMT. A great deal of nurses I have had dealings with treat us like we don’t know anything as road crews. I had a nurse on the floor tell me that I didn’t need to know a patients history because I has just an ambulance driver. That kind of treatment of EMT’s is what creates that hostility between us. Nurses tend not to trust our assessment skills. I hate it when an er nurse doesn’t read my run report, ignores me, and ask the patient all the same questions I just asked, and it tends to upset patients being asked the same thing over and over again. I guess the bottom line is nurses tend to get from EMS what they give us. Not all nurses are like this. I know some ER nurses at a couple of trauma centers that are awesome. But this seems to not be the norm. They make us do ER clinicals, maybe nurses should do rotations with us on the road. We work in there world and try to respect it, It would be nice if nurses could wonder into our world from time to time. You are a hybrid in your job, so maybe it doesn’t seem as cut and dry to you. Sorry Emily. Just my thoughts. Miss you. Shepp