the ER edit

By TheERedit

The unfiltered side of life behind the scrubs. Hosted by ER nurses and working moms. We share wild ER stories, real talk about nursing, and the chaos of balancing shifts, kids, and everyday life.

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June 24, 2026 ER Nurses React to Medical Murder Cases | The ER Edit Ep. 16
This week, we are getting into medical true crime and the cases that make nurses ask a thousand follow up questions. Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley talk through Lucy Letby, Charles Cullen, Harold Shipman, a German nurse who triggered cardiac arrests to look heroic, and Linda Hazzard, all through the lens of ER nurses who cannot stop thinking about access, medications, charting, leadership, and patient safety.

We also read new Whisper Line submissions, including hospital parking lot chaos, an urgent care call that still haunts someone, nursing school workplace tension, and a scary pediatric medication mix up involving a vented patient. True crime, ER culture, nurse brain, and a little bit of absolute hospital mess.

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Find The ER Edit episodes, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, The Whisper Line, host links, and business contact in one place.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Ab8DoFQ3hTyQvIE69O2YR?si=fea43e1cda3140f0
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-er-edit/id1884089840
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theERedit
Instagram: @theERedit_
TikTok: @theERedit

Business inquiries: [email protected]

The views and opinions expressed in this episode are those of Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley and do not represent the views, policies, or positions of their current or former employers, hospitals, healthcare organizations, or any affiliated institutions. This podcast is for entertainment and general discussion purposes only and should not be considered medical advice.

00:00 Medical murder cases and ER nurse reactions
00:34 Sick kids, mom life, and neighborhood chaos
02:23 The Whisper Line is fully anonymous now
03:08 True crime documentaries and family fallout
05:31 Lucy Letby and the NICU murder case
09:37 Newborn nursery anxiety as a nurse mom
11:02 The German nurse who wanted to look heroic
14:02 Harold Shipman and suspicious patient wills
18:14 Private investigation, medical malpractice, and hospital charts
22:36 Charles Cullen and The Good Nurse case
24:33 The insulin case that still feels suspicious
26:11 Linda Hazzard and the starvation doctor
28:20 Whisper Line hospital parking lot affair
29:07 Urgent care call that still haunts someone
30:41 Feeling invisible as a tech in nursing school
32:13 The missing condom college story
34:06 Pediatric vent medication mix up
36:37 More crime episodes and medical lawsuits next
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38min
June 17, 2026 ER Nurses React to Sex Injuries That Sent People to the ER | The ER Edit Ep. 15
This week on The ER Edit, Caitlin and Karlie talk about the sex injuries that end up in the emergency room, from cock rings and foreign objects to retained tampons, penile fractures, priapism, and the ER stories patients are usually way too embarrassed to explain.

It is chaotic, uncomfortable, very nurse coded, and somehow still practical. If there is one message underneath all the horror and laughing, it is this: just tell us what happened. The CT scan is going to tell on you anyway.

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Find The ER Edit episodes, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, The Whisper Line, host links, and business contact in one place.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Ab8DoFQ3hTyQvIE69O2YR?si=fea43e1cda3140f0
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-er-edit/id1884089840
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theERedit
Instagram: @theERedit_
TikTok: @theERedit

Business inquiries: [email protected]
The views and opinions expressed in this episode are those of Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley and do not represent the views, policies, or positions of their current or former employers, hospitals, healthcare organizations, or any affiliated institutions. This podcast is for entertainment and general discussion purposes only and should not be considered medical advice.

00:00 The ER call nobody wants
02:19 When sex sends you to the ER
03:28 Sex injury quiz time
04:06 Cock rings and fire department backup
05:30 When foreign objects require hospitalization
06:47 Who ends up with genital foreign body injuries
08:00 Why the base matters
09:06 Reddit sex injury stories begin
10:15 Retained tampons and ER removals
11:39 Jalapeños and terrible timing
14:08 The Halloween bathroom injury
15:02 Penile fractures and the loud pop
18:05 When sex becomes a real emergency
24:00 Priapism treatment is gnarly
31:13 Why honesty matters in the ER
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35min
June 10, 2026 Hospital Superstitions ER Nurses Actually Believe | The ER Edit Ep. 14
This episode is all about the hospital superstitions and spooky ER stories nurses swear are real. We talk full moons, never saying quiet, deaths and traumas coming in threes, haunted hospital rooms, weird call lights, near death experiences, and the nurse gut feelings that make you stop and pay attention.

It gets funny, creepy, and a little heavy in the way only ER conversations can. Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley also get into patient safety, unsafe encounters, prisoners in the ER, and why nurse intuition is not something to ignore.

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Find The ER Edit episodes, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, The Whisper Line, host links, and business contact in one place.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Ab8DoFQ3hTyQvIE69O2YR?si=fea43e1cda3140f0
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-er-edit/id1884089840
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theERedit
Instagram: @theERedit_
TikTok: @theERedit

Business inquiries: [email protected]
The views and opinions expressed in this episode are those of Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley and do not represent the views, policies, or positions of their current or former employers, hospitals, healthcare organizations, or any affiliated institutions. This podcast is for entertainment and general discussion purposes only and should not be considered medical advice.

00:00 Motorcycle ghost story cold open
00:23 Welcome to The ER Edit
00:33 Candy, chaos, and a deleted episode
02:59 Hospital superstitions and supernatural stories
04:06 Never say quiet in the ER
05:48 Full moons and hospital energy
07:44 Death, codes, and traumas come in threes
08:47 Crash carts, RSI kits, and warding off disaster
10:19 Nurse intuition and the sixth sense
12:31 Frequent flyers and the Beetlejuice rule
13:10 Vents, BiPAP, and comfort care timing
15:03 Never switch your own assignment
15:39 The haunted hospital room
19:13 Empty rooms, call lights, and ghost stories
21:08 Spooky hospital stories from nurses
28:07 The motorcycle patient who disappeared
33:46 Black eyes, unsafe patients, and trusting your gut
38:04 Prisoners, high profile patients, and ER safety
42:18 Why ER nursing can feel genuinely scary
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43min
June 03, 2026 ER Nurses Debunk the Biggest Emergency Room Myths | The ER Edit Ep. 13
This week we are breaking down the ER myths that make nurses twitch: ambulances do not automatically get you seen first, chest pain does not always mean a bed, normal labs do not always tell the whole story, and the waiting room is absolutely not the DMV.

Caitlin and Karlie walk through triage, EMS wall time, imaging expectations, pain protocols, fevers, head injuries, and the nurse anxiety that comes from seeing what can go wrong.

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Find The ER Edit episodes, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, The Whisper Line, host links, and business contact in one place.
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Ab8DoFQ3hTyQvIE69O2YR?si=fea43e1cda3140f0
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-er-edit/id1884089840
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theERedit
Instagram: @theERedit_
TikTok: @theERedit
Business inquiries: [email protected]
The views and opinions expressed in this episode are those of Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley and do not represent the views, policies, or positions of their current or former employers, hospitals, healthcare organizations, or any affiliated institutions. This podcast is for entertainment and general discussion purposes only and should not be considered medical advice.

00:00 Triage is not vibes
00:26 Current events before the chaos
03:06 ER MythBusters begins
03:49 Ambulance arrivals do not skip triage
06:30 When ambulance patients go to the lobby
08:46 Wall time and the EMS backup
11:00 The medic wall confrontation
15:15 Chest pain is a trigger word, not a guaranteed bed
17:37 What the ER is actually built to do
21:30 MRIs, CT scans, and imaging expectations
23:40 Pain protocols and narcotic misunderstandings
26:29 The ER is not first come, first served
32:25 Normal labs do not always tell the whole story
40:29 Rapid fire ER myths
43:41 Head injuries, helmets, and nurse anxiety
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47min
May 27, 2026 A Nurse Was Killed Walking to Her Car | The ER Edit Ep. 12
This episode is heavy. We talk about the death of Ada Doss, a nurse who was killed walking to her car after work, and the bigger conversation it brings up about nurse safety, hospital security, workplace violence, and the way healthcare workers are expected to keep showing up after terrifying things happen.

We also get into the behind the scenes reality of ER codes, caring for one of your own, DNRs, medical power of attorney, organ donation, and honor walks. It is honest, emotional, and very real about what nurses carry and why protecting healthcare workers has to matter before tragedy happens.

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The views and opinions expressed in this episode are those of Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley and do not represent the views, policies, or positions of their current or former employers, hospitals, healthcare organizations, or any affiliated institutions. This podcast is for entertainment and general discussion purposes only and should not be considered medical advice.
00:00 Opening Moment
00:17 Weekend Catch Up
02:05 Scrub Trends and Danskos
02:57 A Heavy Week for Nurses
03:08 The Ada Doss Case
05:01 Walking to the Car Alone
08:13 When the ER Responds
10:27 Hospital Safety Failed Her
12:14 You Did Not Sign Up for This
16:14 When It Is One of Your Own
23:07 Protecting Healthcare Workers
29:32 What Codes Really Look Like
32:37 DNRs and Family Decisions
35:28 Organ Donation and Honor Walks
43:30 Why This Conversation Matters
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45min
May 20, 2026 ER Nurses React to Medication Errors Live at NurseCon 2026 | The ER Edit Ep. 11
We recorded live at NurseCon 2026, and this episode went exactly where you would expect: medication errors, ER nurse chaos, wild audience stories, burnout, nurse ratios, and one very unfortunate cruise laxative situation.

We react to shocking med error stories, including insulin mistaken for Lasix, Lantus pushed IV, mannitol into a lumbar drain, cough syrup through an IV, and the kinds of medical stories that make every nurse double check everything forever.

We also talk about our own early nursing mistakes, why errors are often bigger than one person, the Swiss cheese effect, post-Covid burnout, bad preceptor experiences, and why nurses need spaces where they can laugh, vent, and feel understood.

The views and opinions expressed in this episode are those of Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley and do not represent the views, policies, or positions of their current or former employers, hospitals, healthcare organizations, or any affiliated institutions. This podcast is for entertainment and general discussion purposes only and should not be considered medical advice.

00:00 Struggling for My Life
00:27 Clocked In Live at NurseCon
01:08 Who We Are and Why We’re Here
02:11 From Secret TikToks to Med Errors
03:14 Taking Medication Errors Live
04:48 Every Nurse Has a Med Error Story
05:13 Blood in 15 Seconds and Morphine Allergies
06:13 Insulin Instead of Lasix
07:19 Amiodarone for Bradycardia?
08:09 Full Bottle of Lantus IV Push
09:19 Cough Syrup Through an IV
10:23 The PCA Pump That Went Nowhere
11:47 Why Nursing Mistakes Are So Scary
13:14 The Allergy Miss That Became an Airway Emergency
14:30 The Swiss Cheese Effect
15:19 Nurse Ratios Around the Country
16:36 8 Patients on Night Shift
17:29 The Most Unhinged Nurse Would You Rather
20:11 Alcohol Withdrawal or Psych C Diff?
21:27 ER Nurse Red Flags
24:18 NurseCon, Burnout, and Finding Your People
24:55 The Cruise Laxative Incident
28:12 Taco Bell in the Driveway
28:43 Nurses Know How to Let Loose
32:26 Why We Talk About the Hard Stuff
34:42 New Nurses, Burnout, and Bad Preceptors
39:12 How Covid Changed Healthcare
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43min
May 13, 2026 ER Nurses React to the Craziest Lab Values Ever | The ER Edit Ep. 10
In this episode of The ER Edit, we react to the craziest lab values and vital signs nurses have seen, including wild blood pressures, glucose numbers, sodium levels, troponins, ethanol levels, DKA, alcohol withdrawal, rhabdo, and BNPs that made us question reality.

We also get into the ER moments that stick with us, from patients saying they are going to die to an emotional Christmas Eve STEMI story. Then we open the Whisper Line for anonymous confessions, ICU secrets, relationship red flags, and one hospital room affair we were not prepared for.

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The views and opinions expressed in this episode are those of Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley and do not represent the views, policies, or positions of their current or former employers, hospitals, healthcare organizations, or any affiliated institutions. This podcast is for entertainment and general discussion purposes only and should not be considered medical advice.
00:00 Tell My Wife and Daughter I Love Them
00:25 Clocking In to Episode 10
00:55 The Podcast Hits the Top 200
03:13 Craziest Labs and Vitals Nurses Have Seen
03:53 A Blood Pressure That Should Not Be Real
05:22 White Count, Sodium, Troponin, and Ethanol Chaos
08:31 The Critical Troponin Call That Taught a Lesson
10:31 Nursing Diagnosis Did Not Teach Us This
12:01 Blood Sugar of 2020 and DKA Explained
14:33 Hemoglobin Drops and a Ruptured Spleen Story
17:16 Alcohol Withdrawal Patients Are Terrifying
19:15 Rhabdo, CK Over 40000, and Flu Complications
21:54 BNP of 122000 and Heart Failure Fluid Overload
23:38 The Whisper Line Starts Getting Unhinged
26:09 The Stroke Confession That Hit Hard
31:22 Marriage Red Flags and No Caller ID Panic
35:02 When Patients Say They Are Going to Die
37:31 The Christmas Eve STEMI Story
42:29 The ICU Room Affair Nobody Was Ready For
44:00 Caught in the Hospital Bathroom
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47min
May 06, 2026 ER Nurses Play Would You Survive the ER? | The ER Edit Ep. 9
This week on The ER Edit, Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley are playing Would You Survive the ER? We are talking wild triage moments, homeboy transport, PPE surprises, decon showers, scabies versus bedbugs, skin snow, a nursing school toe story we truly were not ready for, and the ER cases that make you realize anything can walk through the door.

If you are an ER nurse, nursing student, new grad, healthcare worker, or just here for the chaos, this one is funny, disgusting, honest, and painfully accurate. Clock in and let us know which scenario would have sent you home.

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The views and opinions expressed in this episode are those of Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley and do not represent the views, policies, or positions of their current or former employers, hospitals, healthcare organizations, or any affiliated institutions. This podcast is for entertainment and general discussion purposes only and should not be considered medical advice.

00:00 She Pulled Off a Toe?
00:22 Would You Survive the ER?
01:18 The Wildest Triage Story
04:53 Homeboy Transport Chaos
07:08 Decon Showers and PPE Panic
14:05 Scabies Family Plan or Bedbugs?
17:32 Skin Snow and the Toe Story
21:04 Period Pants in a Trauma
24:27 Guess the Triage Level
27:11 Grandma Fell on Baby Aspirin
30:23 The Aortic Dissection That Scares Nurses
35:33 How Patients Accidentally Make the ER Worse

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47min
April 29, 2026 Nursing Stereotypes That Are Way Too Accurate | The ER Edit Ep. 8
In this episode, we are talking about the nursing stereotypes that are way too accurate. We get into the personalities every hospital seems to have, from the OG nurse and the Gen Z nurse to the know it all nurse, male nurse stereotypes, and the ER nurse who thrives in chaos.

We also break down specialty stereotypes for psych, NICU, peds, PICU, flight, ICU, PACU, and ER nurses, and have way too much fun guessing which specialties different celebrities would work in. This one is funny, specific, and painfully relatable.

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The views and opinions expressed in this episode are those of Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley and do not represent the views, policies, or positions of their current or former employers, hospitals, healthcare organizations, or any affiliated institutions. This podcast is for entertainment and general discussion purposes only and should not be considered medical advice.

0:00 The Tailored Scrubs Debate
0:19 Welcome Back To The ER Edit
0:43 Why Nursing Stereotypes Are So Accurate
1:43 The Legendary OG Nurse
3:33 Male Nurse Stereotypes
7:28 The Gen Z Nurse
9:36 Scrub Trends And Nurse Style
13:09 The Scary Know It All Nurse
17:06 Psych Nurse Stereotypes
18:18 NICU, Peds, And PICU Nurses
22:15 Flight Nurses Are Built Different
26:56 ICU Nurses Vs ER Nurses
32:05 Why ER Nurses Are Their Own Breed
33:32 Celebrities As Nurse Specialties
37:24 Wrapping Up
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39min
April 22, 2026 When Nursing Becomes Your Identity | The ER Edit Ep. 7
In this episode, we talk about what happens when nursing becomes more than a career and starts becoming part of your identity. From nursing school to years in the ER, we share how the job can shape our minds, our relationships, and the way we carry stress long after a shift ends.

We also open up about how motherhood changed the way we experience nursing, trauma, anxiety, and work life balance. This is a vulnerable conversation about nurse burnout, mental health, PTSD, boundaries, pride in the profession, and learning how to be more than just the title of nurse.

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The views and opinions expressed in this episode are those of Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley and do not represent the views, policies, or positions of their current or former employers, hospitals, healthcare organizations, or any affiliated institutions. This podcast is for entertainment and general discussion purposes only and should not be considered medical advice.
0:00 The PTSD That Comes Back
0:20 Welcome Back To The ER Edit
1:46 When Nursing Becomes Your Identity
5:19 Why Karlie Chose Nursing
7:21 College, Setbacks, And Alaska
11:17 Caitlin’s Path Into Nursing
14:21 You Are Not Too Old For Nursing
18:28 The Pride Of Being An ER Nurse
20:13 Leaving The ER And Becoming A Mom
23:56 How Motherhood Changed Nursing
31:06 Boundaries, PTO, And Mental Health
37:15 You Are More Than Your Job
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42min

FAQs about the ER edit:

How many episodes does the ER edit have?

The podcast currently has 17 episodes available.