Hey is anyones life as a nurse like greys amatomy?

[francoml]

I am a new grad and just got hired in a level one trauma center and I work in trauma ICU. I feel like my life has a lot of similarities to the show.... I live with two girls and the trauma team likes to go out (on our days off) a lot. It's kind of like big fraternity, everyone is super close and likes to have a good time :) we give awesome care to our patients and really live and breath trauma medicine! Just wondering if y'all have similar experiences?

[Anoetos, BSN, RN]

I wasn't aware they even had nurses on that show.

The doctors give meds, ambulate patients and basically do everything, so who needs RN's? Plus they've got all the time in the world to screw each other and dramatize about every little thing...

My wife watches it...she had it on once, I'll never forget the episode where Meredith Grey drowned and was resuscitated for like three hours and then woke up and was FINE! I told my wife she'd be dead, and if by some miracle she made it, she'd be a drooling vegetable.

[exit96]

I don't watch worthless **** like that...matter of fact I don't watch much of McWorld crap.

[juan.ramirez0426]

Oh snap! I had no idea Grey's Anatomy was so horrid. I'll have to catch an episode some time and see what all the hate's about.

[Orca, ADN, ASN, RN]

Oh snap! I had no idea Grey's Anatomy was so horrid. I'll have to catch an episode some time and see what all the hate's about.

Grey's is fine as long as you take it for what it is - entertainment, not a medical documentary. I watched most of the episodes for the first four or five seasons. There is just enough medical realism in it to make it believable to most laypersons, but as a medical professional I shake my head watching it. The writers have obviously studied medical cases for the scripts, but they take considerable license with the outcomes. There is also a lot of questionable personal behavior going on - doctors dating patients, physicians dating residents, doctors hooking up in the supply room and the locker room and so forth. As others have mentioned, it is a very doctor-centric show. The nurses on the show are mainly there just to fill out the scene. You see them in the nurse station or walking down the hall, but little else. They never seem to be in the room when there is an emergency. Very seldom do you even see a doctor talk to one of them.

[aTOMicTom]

Can anyone even imagine a show where the NURSES were the sole focus? I mean, the docs are completely undeveloped characters? I used to really love House, MD, but now if I watch it the lack of nurse characters is glaring!

Kind of ironic since these shows are called "dramas" but in real life, the REAL drama is in the nurses' interactions!

[lub dub]

the average age on my floor is 27 for the nurse. Some of us are as young as 22.

Wow! I can't believe that a trauma floor has a staff that lacks long-term nursing experience. I've never heard of anything like that.

[sissiesmama, ASN, RN]

LOL, yep I know, that's what my comment was implying hahaha..

Yep, the only one I remember by name is Olivia, and that's because she gave George the "syph"

Anne, RNC

[veggie530]

I read the topic title and...

[RobtheORNurse]

We were more like the band of brothers to we were soldiers. We worked hard and played hard, then we got old and became homebodies. Enjoy the fun and take life to the limit. You will look back at it and laugh at the crazy **** you did.

[KeepItRealRN, BSN, RN]

Men don't watch Grey's Anatomy.

[Mr Midwife, BSN, RN]

Men don't watch Grey's Anatomy.

I'm pretty sure I've made a similar comment on some previous thread - great minds and all that.

[CountryMomma, ASN, RN]

You mean I just stand around at the nurse's station, holding a clipboard with papercharting on it, looking impeccable in my carefully coifed hair and makeup, with my scrubs rumpled *just so*, watching the doctors do all the work? IVs, lavage, wound dressings, patient education...I just stand there and observe as all the doctors and residents work hard and screw up harder?

No.