Background: Mobile Emergency Teams (MET) consisting of an anesthetist and an intensive care nurses is a way of working in an emergency phase within the hospital organization. The purpose is to identify critically ill patients in care departments with the help of a nurse. MET is based on predicting, preventing and treating severely ill patients according to a structured prioritization approach. Aim: The purpose of the study was to describe nurse’s experiences of contacting Mobile Emergency Teams (MET). Method: Interview study with descriptive design. Nine interviews were conducted. Results: Nurses in healthcare departments experiences the presence and the knowledge that they could contact MET as a high level of security. Getting help quickly felt important to safety and nurses felt that they trusted the MET. However, feelings of stress, concern and insecurity were also included in the picture. In the majority of meetings with MET, the participants felt that they received a good response, that they had a team feeling of working together. Something that also was found in the study was that nurses in healthcare departments used MET too seldom.

Conclusion: MET was experienced as a positive asset in health care for both nurses and patients. Nurses in healthcare departments felt safe to call an MIG team, but the safety was mixed with a sense of stress when these situations occurred.