Any good "nurse" shows on tv? Netflix?

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What's your favorite television series depicting nurses? Now, which one do you believe is the closest thing to reality? We all have different tastes so why is it that you like one over the other? Is it because you love humor? Or, maybe you just love drama. We want to know...

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Nurse Aoi, funny and heartwarming.

only few episodes but can relate to some stuffs.

please watch.

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Specializes in MICU, SICU, CICU.

The U.S. version of Getting On on HBO is spot on and sometimes very very funny.

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I'm watching all the seasons of ER now because I never watched it when it was on TV LOL. Also like Night Shift and am looking forward to the upcoming Chicago Med, a spinoff of the Chicago Fire and PD series on NBC

What originally got me interested in nursing as a kid was watching the nurse Dixie on Emergency from the 70s. And strangely, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Even though Nurse Ratched was a bad nurse.

Ironically I'm a psych nurse too, but I'm kind to my patients :)

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Specializes in Hospice.

London Hospital and Call the Midwife, both historical drama series from BBC. I watched them on Amazon and Hulu.

ETA: Shoulda read the whole thread first!:o Consider my voice added to the chorus of recommendations. Especially for London Hospital ... it is a terrific look at the early history of nursing and modern hospital care.

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Now I'll have to find out where I can watch London Hospital. Sounds interesting!

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icuRNmaggie said:
The U.S. version of Getting On on HBO is spot on and sometimes very very funny.

A very big second to this. IMHO, it is one of the best shows on television and the blackest of black comedies. Doctors, nurses, patients and family are equally skewered, but the writers do an excellent job of in keeping things reasonably realistic, if a bit OTT.

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

I love Call the Midwife.

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Night Shift is a really good one!

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Most "network" shows are crap. Nurses are portrayed as bimbos that are bedding every guy they see in every episode. Disgusting. They are all young, perky, have stringy hair, fake boobs & pouty lips. Pathetic caricatures. Cannot tolerate any of them.

London Hospital - GREAT

Call the Midwife - AWESOME!!! Have tissues nearby (avail. on iTunes)

One Born Every Minute (about British nurse midwives)… very good

Trauma Doctors

Search "Top 200 medical shows" - good playlist, nice variety from US and other countries

Nurse Jackie - Good, but somewhat dark (addicted nurse, sex issues, etc) - Showtime but probably available on Amazon, iTunes or Netflix

Getting On - HBO, good, funny, different, painfully realistic

youtube

Fat Doctor - A BBC production, kind of like "600 lb. Life" follows bariatric surgery cases

Supersize vs Superskinny - BBC

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I started watching Night Shift but just couldn't stand it. I think it was the whole, basketball on the roof thing.

Getting On....I should probably give a second chance. It just didn't really hit me as a "OMG YES" kind of thing so I found something else to watch lol

I LOVE Grey's Anatomy!! I don't like the way nurses are treated, but actually as the seasons go on, there really aren't any nurses...? And by then you're hooked on the drama and can't look away

and I also love Nurse Jackie. I know some of my coworkers hate it because of it negatively portraying an RN BUT there are so many excellent nurses in it and even when she's on drugs, Jackie's still not a terrible nurse lol But it's the most accurate-isn show I've seen. I love it.

If anyone knows if London Hospital is available elsewhere (hulu? Amazon prime instant stream?) please let me know because I started watching it on Netflix and then it disappeared :(

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London Hospital: I found it on iTunes, but go on youtube and all the other streaming services. You never know. Sometimes you can find free episodes.

Call The Midwife: Just started a new season on PBS. I like it very much though many an episode is a tear jerker.

I agree with you about Nurse Jackie. Nurses are people. People get addicted (to drugs, alcohol, food, whatever). We are human after all. I found Nurse Jackie's behavior alternately fascinating and disturbing. It is a real-life view into the absolute despair, conniving and sickness of addiction.

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I looooovvved "Breathless," another British import set in a London teaching hospital in the 1960's, but it only lasted one season.

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