Casualty on BBC1

Owain Glyndwr · Feb 26, 2006

Hello everyone,
Just wanted to ask anyone what they thought of BBC 1 Casualty as a programme to watch to get experience of Nursing life in the Emergency Department. Would like to hear yours views
Regards, Marion

Ever so slightly off the mark, after all it is a soap. The first series back in the 80s was rubbish from a technical nursing point of view, although it did improve for the second and third series. Then Charlie got shot and standards slipped.

Holby City, is, of course, more realistic :rotfl: Especially when the midwives get jobs running the Medical Admissions unit when their not assisting in major surgery or becoming Matrons. Robert Powell looks blo*dy ridiculous in his white polo neck and casual navy top and has anyone worked on a ward where a mother (sort of...you have to watch it really), her estranged husband (Robert 'Jesus' Powell in his polo) and their daughter the Ward Sister (see earlier comment on mother) all work together - absolute tosh.

I have no idea what is happening when they combine them - Holby City at Casualty or whatever. :uhoh3:

I watch neither of them. They are rubbish.

Bodies, No Angels, Cardiac Arrest, Only When I Laugh and a Country Practice are essential viewing.

Cheers

OG

madwife2002, BSN, RN · Feb 27, 2006

Hello everyone,
Just wanted to ask anyone what they thought of BBC 1 Casualty as a programme to watch to get experience of Nursing life in the Emergency Department. Would like to hear yours views
Regards, Marion

Nothing like real life. Re Holby city I love it when the nurses go to the labour room and deliver the babies. I could never have done that as a nurse lol, plus unless it was a dire emergency then nurses just dont look after labouring women. As a midwife I would never ever have transfered to the medical ward and done nursing either.

madwife2002, BSN, RN · Feb 27, 2006

Ever so slightly off the mark, after all it is a soap. The first series back in the 80s was rubbish from a technical nursing point of view, although it did improve for the second and third series. Then Charlie got shot and standards slipped.
Holby City, is, of course, more realistic :rotfl: Especially when the midwives get jobs running the Medical Admissions unit when their not assisting in major surgery or becoming Matrons. Robert Powell looks blo*dy ridiculous in his white polo neck and casual navy top and has anyone worked on a ward where a mother (sort of...you have to watch it really), her estranged husband (Robert 'Jesus' Powell in his polo) and their daughter the Ward Sister (see earlier comment on mother) all work together - absolute tosh.
I have no idea what is happening when they combine them - Holby City at Casualty or whatever.
I think you lie just a little how would you know the plot:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

mabel u.k · Feb 27, 2006

plus unless it was a dire emergency then nurses just dont look after labouring women. As a midwife I would never ever have transfered to the medical ward and done nursing either.

In a dire emergency you would see me running for the hills, :uhoh21:would have no idea what to do where to start with a labouring women, not in a million years. Now in a cardiac arrest or surgical emergency I am great but women and babies - wouldn't know which end to start.:imbar

Don't you just love the way the consultants and SPRs do everything - not a HO or SHO in sight. You can see me squeeling at the TV when the resuscitate people, which guidelines are they using?????

english_nurse · Feb 27, 2006

the only thing i can add to that is that there is nothing stranger than real life!

or is it just my hospital that resembles casualty sometimes?

Owain Glyndwr · Feb 27, 2006

I think you lie just a little how would you know the plot:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Belinda-Wales is an avid watcher of both Holby and Casualty, the former due to the 'gorgeous Owen' (and the highly amusing way in which both nurses and midwives are portrayed - she doesn't half get wound up when Mubs is getting stuck into deliveries and generally doing things that a Reg wouldn't go anywhere near) and the latter as there is nothing else on tele on a Saturday night (don't start me off on Dancing On Ice).

I will watch about 10 minutes of both - after that I'm off on one as my tolerance of 1) bad storylines 2) bad medical soaps 3) Robert Powell in a white polo neck is extremely low.

Cheers

OG

english_nurse · Feb 27, 2006

ooo has she seen owen on that singing thingy on bbc1 then

ooo errr missus!!!

:1luvu:

letina · Feb 27, 2006

I've met the delicious 'Owen' in person :redbeathe

We were on a plane from Manchester to Sanford, Orlando last year, and Owen was amongst a group of 'helpers' accompanying a party of sick children going to Disneyworld. Anyway...couldn't help myself...just had to go ask him for his autograph. He was really nice, shook my hand and gave me his autograph with a little 'personal message'. Aaah....he's even more handsome in the flesh :heartbeat

Owain Glyndwr · Feb 27, 2006

Belinda-Wales is now happy that there are two other members of the Gorgeous Owen fan club.

I personally think that he's become slightly chunky rather than hunky and has put on a few pounds of late. Bitter? Me? Of course not.

Cheers

OG

madwife2002, BSN, RN · Feb 28, 2006

Belinda-Wales is an avid watcher of both Holby and Casualty, the former due to the 'gorgeous Owen' (and the highly amusing way in which both nurses and midwives are portrayed - she doesn't half get wound up when Mubs is getting stuck into deliveries and generally doing things that a Reg wouldn't go anywhere near) and the latter as there is nothing else on tele on a Saturday night (don't start me off on Dancing On Ice).
I will watch about 10 minutes of both - after that I'm off on one as my tolerance of 1) bad storylines 2) bad medical soaps 3) Robert Powell in a white polo neck is extremely low.
Cheers
OG

Tell her no casualty or soaps here in AZ:crying2:

Fonenurse · Feb 28, 2006

Tell her no casualty or soaps here in AZ:crying2:

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?? :rotfl: