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Now 11 news at 10. They are part of a special breed of medical professionals and today their work is being applauded in a national celebration tonight 11 news reporter Deborah martin takes a look at life in the E. R. And the emergency nurses dedicated to their

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work. An ambulance heads to Ben Taub's emergency center. The patient a man involved in a one car accident pretty significant and treating him some of the most skilled trauma nurses in the country. This is where you want to come. This is where I would want to

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come. This is where I want. My family treated. Ben tops, nurses see trauma even from within a patient collapses in a hospital hallway Anita Garcia able Jovel it. Meanwhile the sixth more than 300 a day keep coming. I have a lot of people talk to me

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and say doc doc. I said no no no I'm a nurse. It's a compliment but at the same time I feel a nurse is just as important as a doctor. If not more isn't hurt anywhere. You can come down with high stress is part of the

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job. You've got someone that's the same age as your child that comes in has been hit by a car that has to touch you. So is death. Nurse Brenda goatee must tell family members how this man died and you never use the words passed or they

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didn't make it. You always use straight out they died because people use denial. They don't want to admit that somebody passed. What do you mean passed on to the next room passed on to some other area. If you don't use the word dead, sometimes they don't

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get it. I wouldn't take Brenda's job for anything. The nurses here at Ben tops Emergency center certainly don't stay for the money. The average nurse makes Less than $20 an hour, far less than they would make at a private hospital. My kids begged me. They said

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mom, why don't you work somewhere else? My husband, you know, don't you want to go somewhere else? It's less stressful. This is what an er nurse does all across the country and all across the city of Houston. This is what this is what we do. And

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the work goes on. Deborah Martin 11 News. Well, the emergency center nurses at Ben Taub will be celebrating their own hard work with a little party. A little cake, a little food at the hospital. This Friday.