It Ain't Like The Movies!

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Specializes in Oncology, critical care.

What nursing or medical pet peeves drive you bonkers in movies or on TV?

I find myself yelling at the tv and huffing about how wrong they got everything.

For example, when people rip out their IV's but don't bleed. Or ETT that are not taped down. AT ALL. Or when they shock a flatline. Or when nurses and doctors run for even the most minor things. Code patients who wake up looking refreshed and alert/oriented. Oh! And when doctors do things like start IVs or clean up vomit (yeah, right). :laugh:

What about you?

TV/movie pet peeves?

Best/worst medical shows?

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I stopped watching anything in a medical setting years ago. Already spent way to much time there in real life.

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i love Grey's Anatomy but laugh every time you're clued into a life-threatening situation or a sudden decline in the patient's condition by the sound of insistent and incessant alarms going off. Even when there's nothing to alarm. Even when they aren't hooked up to any monitors at all lol! doesn't stop the alarm from sounding!

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Of course it's not (like the movies). I'm sure that physicians, cops, attorneys, schoolteachers, etc., feel the same way about how they are portrayed on TV and in the movies. It's entertainment.

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.
i love Grey's Anatomy but laugh every time you're clued into a life-threatening situation or a sudden decline in the patient's condition by the sound of insistent and incessant alarms going off. Even when there's nothing to alarm. Even when they aren't hooked up to any monitors at all lol! doesn't stop the alarm from sounding!

The monitors on TV are telepathic, dontcha know! :D

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That every woman's labor starts with SROM and they are immediately and precipitously in labor.

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.

There's a post exactly like this with several pages of comments.

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.
There's a post exactly like this with several pages of comments.

Like most things in life and on allnurses, there is nothing new under the sun. :) Drive on....

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Specializes in Hospice.

It irritates me that nobody ever puts the siderails up on the daggone bed.

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Specializes in ICU, trauma.

i always remember this greys anatomy episode where the pt has c-diff and theyre doing a fecal transplant....and all the doctors are in the room with the patient touching her....with no isolation at all. I'm just like....ewww :lol2:

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Specializes in Case manager, UR.

"House" used to drive me nuts. One patient, surrounded by several doctors, almost never a nurse in sight.

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I stopped watching anything in a medical setting years ago. Already spent way to much time there in real life.

I know, right? Everyone's all, "You'll love Nurse Jackie" or whatever but I might as well just stay at work.

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