Knowing meds are the important skills BUT what really counts is… how you get on with other staff. How you cope with bullying from other staff. unfair policies, management who only care about money not about pts. How you deal with friends who ask you what you do and give you lectures on vaccines because suddenly they’re immunologists or decide to tell you there long boring story about their visit to hospital. How you cope with pts trying to spit at you punch you and threaten you. More important than meds is bringing food to work and remembering to hydrate and you’ll wake up screaming from cramps. Also how you deal with seeing suffering you have no chance of helping because there’s just too many patients. Videos like this are so much easier because they’re about FACTS not PEOPLE but your responsible for people and the most dangerous people in the ER are not drug addicts or making a medication error it’s other staff.
Great video. I was just wondering why that's the case for Hispanic patients to acknowledge they have chest "pressure" but not chest "pain". Is it attributed to a difference in language/translation or do the Hispanic/Latino cultures refer to pain in that area as pressure?
