If you have ever had a medical emergency that has ended with a trip to the emergency room, chances are you met a few people along the way.
These people I'm talking about are the unsung heroes whom you may have been in too much pain to even appreciate, but they are the reason why you ended up being OK. Or even alive!
It takes extraordinary patience, know-how, empathy, and strength to be a nurse. People have countless stories about how nurses go above and beyond to help in their recoveries.
Emergency room nurses literally and figuratively call the shots, which is why it's important to take a moment to appreciate them. It's not only what these nurses do for their patients that makes them extraordinary, but also what they do for their friends and family by not taking the baggage home.
It can be difficult to remember this as a patient or as a friend or family member.
On Facebook's Love What Matters page, one user decided to give nurses, and other emergency medical workers a much-deserved shout-out for everything they do:
E.R. nurses are a different kind of creature. We condition ourselves to roll with the punches..no matter how brutal..you roll.
Somebody's life depends on it.
Our eyes see the unfathomable…sights that would keep a “normal” person awake at night…but we roll.
We condition ourselves to not feel it…not take life too seriously…we know how fragile and brief it is..we are reminded every time we swipe that time clock…every time…and we roll.
I picked a young lady up off the floor this morning after she walked out of the room where her daddy died. She dropped to her knees…she wailed..she cried out for her dad…and without batting an eye, I knelt beside her and helped her the best way I could…death had won again.
We become numb…our hearts don’t feel things like the hearts who are protected from this type of consistent and repeated defeat…we cope..and maybe too well.
Maybe we come off as cold and emotionally unavailable. Maybe we aren’t approachable. We come off a little bossy…because we have to be good patient advocates..to be the person our patient needs.
Be patient with the ER nurse/EMS/PD/FD in your life. Your eyes have not seen what theirs have. You haven’t felt it…you haven’t battled death as much and as hard as they have.
You could never see their world through their eyes…because if they love you..they wouldn’t want you to..they will protect you from it.
Be patient and kind with your ER nurse…you never know what battlefield they just walked off of.
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