It’s tough duty. The over dose and black out drunk population take up beds that could be better used by other people
The ER I work in is the largest in the state of NJ and yeah, we could do without the loud mouth drunks and meth heads( who almost always are women) but the law says each and every one who comes into an ER has to be treated.
As I said, I’m just a mop jockey but you can’t be a spectator. I can’t deliver patient care but we are given certain instructions as to making sure all patients are safe, not unattended or in any way not being taken care.
Sure some of them you’d like strangle but you have to maintain your composure and do your job and as far as the nurses where I work, they’re angles, everyone of them. They do their job.