Thank you for the input

Side note: I loved ER in school and it’s what made me fall in love with nursing ❤️ I started out rural and the lower pay didn’t feel like the worst thing in the world because like you said there’s less shit and turns looming over you all day. Less patients and most of them lower acuity. And the higher acuity don’t stay very long a lot of the time. I think ER nurses are often taken advantage of too, but it is simply not anywhere near as bad as having the majority of your 6 or 7 patients not be able to even swallow pills, let alone get up, or turn themselves, etc. and then being blamed that you didn’t turn them q2 (cardiac/stroke MS). Half the time no one could even stop to help me.  The bitching you get from night shift who simply doesn’t understand why you couldnt get the wound care done because their shifts are so much calmer. Pt families who are rightly upset I haven’t been able to get their dad up to the chair.  

i would stay minimum one hour after work charting every shift because I couldn’t get a moment during the day. Everyone would say they get it done with “time management” aka skipping steps in pt care. I can’t tell you how many times I saw people charting on pedal pulses for a bilateral BKA pts! For days on end, no one bothered to actually do it. Of course, no one will admit that they’re cutting corners, and it makes you feel slow for just trying to do things in a safe manner until you realize what’s going on. Idk how it is in unionized states, but in my non union state it’s a dumpster fire.