[hellerd2003]

Grey's anatomy is NOTHING. If you want an inaccurate RN/ healthcare perspective, watch Days of our Lives (daytime soap opera).

The current plotline involves a daughter to father partial pancreas transplant in which, prior to the transplantation, the daughter was so drunk that they found her passed out on a park bench; no one ever vented (patients in critical care have nasal cannula, but a vent is sitting in the room turned off); crazy doctors who have the ability to erase memory; a chief of staff who seems to be the only physician working in the entire hospital; a birth wing that is the same as the ER which is the same as the OR which is the same as ICU . . . you get my drift.

The best is that it appears they must be attempting to improve their medical representation with this whole pancreas thing, because they're actually ordering semi-appropriate labs for the "new systemic infection" the character has-- CBC, Chem, amylase/lipase (for the half of the pancreas, naturally), and blood cultures. Of course, they forgot the lactate, but we'll allow that. ;-)

I love watching that show for a laugh!

[Nurse4years]

Just now watching an old ER episode- Doctors taken hostage, sex, burning buildings, sex, intern's suicide... all in an hour- and you are telling me this isn't real?

[Faith213]

they really don't bother me. i know that's not accurate and tend to focus more on the entertainment part of the show...the whole reason it was made...to entertain, not really educate.

but it is sad how many mistakes are made on those shows..even as a pre-nursing student i find alot.

[aKyRN81]

Originally Posted by rn/writer

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Speaking of Hugh Laurie, his name should be McReamy.

Too Cute!

[missmatched]

Funny, my husband and I alternate criticizing TV shows for not getting it right. I'm not a nurse yet but I pick on the science stuff, he picks on the legal stuff (Law and Order). Just enjoying y'alls posts, glad to know we weren't the only ones.

[cardiacRN2006]

Originally Posted by wsuchic1

I can't even think of one show-ever- that centered around nurses.

What about China Beach? I know it was a long time ago, and I really don't remember much of it, but it was centered around a nurse...


http://www.nurseweek.com/news/featur...hinabeach.html

[waterlily777]

Just curious... What is so bad about the portrayal of nurses on ER? They always show them actively involved in all patient care, it is clear they are the ones who keep the wheels spinning so to speak in the ER, they frequently give the docs a piece of their mind, and even had a whole episode about RN union negotiations and strike and it portrayed the nurse in a good light throughout that episode as well...

I'm not a nurse yet, and am currently on a ER marathon, so I'm just wondering (just from the nurses' portrayal perspective, not the hollywood elements of drama) what is distorted?

I love Scrubs too! :-)

Thanks in advance for your enlightening replies! :-)

Long Live Nurses!

[Delirium, SN]

Scrubs for the win and House comes second with Hugh Laurie. (rn/writer-i agree- Hugh Laurie, RSL... drool... ) lol!

I remember the comic "Jumpstart". Joe, a cop, loves to watch ER, but his wife, Marcy, a RN, can't stand it b/c it's so fake. Whereas Marcy wanted to watch Law & Order, but Joe couldn't stand it b/c it, too, was fake. Anyone else catch that one?

[curlilockz]

Originally Posted by hellerd2003

Grey's anatomy is NOTHING. If you want an inaccurate RN/ healthcare perspective, watch Days of our Lives (daytime soap opera).

The current plotline involves a daughter to father partial pancreas transplant in which, prior to the transplantation, the daughter was so drunk that they found her passed out on a park bench; no one ever vented (patients in critical care have nasal cannula, but a vent is sitting in the room turned off); crazy doctors who have the ability to erase memory; a chief of staff who seems to be the only physician working in the entire hospital; a birth wing that is the same as the ER which is the same as the OR which is the same as ICU . . . you get my drift.

The best is that it appears they must be attempting to improve their medical representation with this whole pancreas thing, because they're actually ordering semi-appropriate labs for the "new systemic infection" the character has-- CBC, Chem, amylase/lipase (for the half of the pancreas, naturally), and blood cultures. Of course, they forgot the lactate, but we'll allow that. ;-)

I love watching that show for a laugh!

Oh my! I've been watching that too! It comes on right after I get out of class, so I'll eat lunch and that's the best thing on... It's too funny! My favorite was taking the pancreas from the drunk daughter... very funny!

Scrubs has to be my favorite TV medical show, followed by House... Scrubs is funny and has the most variety in terms of characters... and I love House for the sarcasm... I wish I worked at his hospital... nurses there have nothing to do with the residents doing everything...

[jyoung1950]

Originally Posted by traumaRUs

When you watch TV, its fantasy. Fantasy isn't real! One reason I don't watch much TV - oops except old MASH reruns....not that's real - lol!

Trouble is is that the general public watch these shows and believe that's how hospitals should be - with a doctor and nurses tenderly giving one on one attention to their family member and no one else. Then they bring these beliefs to the hospital and get pretty darn demanding. And of course, the suits in the hospital always back them up and get on the staff for not providing good customer service.