Thank you for your insight. Keep in mind next time you encounter a rude er nurse that there's a good chance they're miserable. Of nursing specialties it has the highest burnout, dissatisfaction and depression associations. They are getting shit from patients, patients families, doctors and maybe even a couple of rude emt's. A lot of the patients abuse the system, a lot of the patients treat the nurses like absolute garbage. I was an emt before I discovered reddit, and hating on nurses wasn't really a thing in my neck of the woods so thanks for clarifying.

And sure, they get paid more. But they spent more on school and invested a lot more time. If you're an emt with some experience, knock out your prereqs in the next two years and start applying for nursing schools. You'll have an admission advantage. Two or three years after that you can work in the er and win over the hearts of emts one at a time.