What is it I do again???????????

[huggietoes]

I watched an episode of Scrubs, and it was quite upsetting. In it the Intern makes the nurse feel lowly for being a nurse and even raves at her "I will be the doctor and you just be the nurse" and throughout she was portrayed as just standing around waiting for an order, and attempting to repeatedly prove her intelligence. One bizzare comment that was a little disturbing, the doctor asks the nurse if she had learned of photography in college and she responds by telling her sob story about not going to college. So where her degree came from is anybody's guess.

I think messages like these only perpetuate the public's misconception of what it is a nurse is and does exactly. So tell me, what do we do, what sets us apart from the MD, what constitutes a nurse?

[MQ Edna]

Originally posted by Jenny P

I don't care to watch any medical shows on TV (and my family won't let me watch them anyways since I'm always yelling at the TV because they don't portray nurses correctly), so it sounds likeTV writers still don't know what the heck they are talking about when it comes to nurses.

JennyP, I can identify, and so can my family. I think my psychosis about television medical shows started back when my mother watched "General Hospital" and I discovered that I was supposed to be having torrid intimate relationships with professional peers in the laundry room during my "free time". Somehow I haven't had the "free time" to do that yet:p ! Can't think why...

[Aussienurse2]

The difference between doctors and nurses?????

Common sense.

[tonicareer]

yes scrubs does a disservice to nurses but then boston public makes teachers look like idiots and ally mcbeal made attorneys look like morons. Catch houston medical this tuesday at 10:00 on abc it is fantastic.

[BadBird, BSN, RN]

As an experienced ICU nurse I have saved many Dr's Asses, I for one am tired of teaching residents, each month it is a new flavor if you know what I mean, they seem to come less prepared, some don't even know basic pharmacology. You can't even get a tylenol order without them looking up in their palm pilot how to order it. Oh well, I guess that is how they learn but I am tired of them not knowing V Tach from artifact and ordering the wrong med during a code. Thank god for us nurses!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[mattsmom81]

I happened to catch a rerun of China Beach and was glad I did...it was a good series ....and portrayed nurses more realistically than most shows, IMO.

My poor dear Mother never DID get over her disappointment that I did not have a torrid affair and/or marry a doc. Too many General Hospital episodes I'm sure. :roll

[Sleepyeyes]

My poor hubby confessed to me near the end of my nursing program, that he was worried that once I was a "professional," that I'd "run off with some Doc."

:rotfl: NOT!!! :rotfl:

[wsu.rn]

In reponse to prn nurse's comment

Coming from a bsn education I feel and was taught that nurses are much more than "physicians assisants" I am insulted by your comment. Maybe that is how nurses were thought of 40 years ago but not in this day and age. I do not just "carry out physicians orders". Many a times I have found absurd orders written that I question. Nurses now do more than they ever had, times have changed and so has nursing