Choose Your Favorite TV Nurse

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We all know that the way Nurses on television are portrayed is wildly inaccurate and at times even insulting. With that being said, though, watching those shows can also be a guilty pleasure. Think of your favorite television nurse of all-time and give us a bit of an explanation as to why you chose your favorite, submit it in the comments below and you'll be entered to win a $250 amazon.com gift card!

Winner will be announced May 16, 2017

UPDATE May 19, 2017

The winner of the 2017 National Nurses Week Choose Your Favorite TV Nurse is user JenYRN who selected:

Zoey Barkow from the TV show "Nurse Jackie"

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Nurse Jackie:

she was real, she made major mistakes, and unethical. At the end of the day she never jepordized her patients and gave them the best of care while at work. She shows the unfortunate down side of addiction, but shows people nurses are human and make stupid mistakes too. It also depicts real life in an ER setting..

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Eli from Grey's Anatomy. To be fair, there are only a couple of medical shows that I watch and he's the only nurse I can think of... but I like him :p

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

Carol Hathaway from "ER". She got to be competent and advocate for her patients, whereas most TV nurses are caricatures.

My least favorite TV nurse (and Boobie Spencer from GH would be a not-so-close second) is Elizabeth Webber Lansing Spencer Lansing Spencer or whatever the heck her name is now. It seems she works only when she wants an excuse to get out of doing something else or when someone being admitted to the hospital gives her an opportunity to get up in their business. She takes long lunches at the MetroCourt in a cocktail dress and heels where she drinks alcohol and excuses herself because "my break is over -- I need to get back to work" when the conversation gets awkward. She goes to work at any time of the day or night that she needs to extricate herself from some awkward personal situation -- I've always wondered what the schedule at General Hospital looks like. It seems she just works whenever and wherever she pleases. Six months after deciding to be a nurse instead of a famous artist, she's already "The best nurse at General Hospital." She routinely breaks HIPAA -- remember when she told Ned's daughter Brooke Lynn that Christina Davis wasn't REALLY her sister, so Brooke Lynn wasn't allowed to visit. "Immediate family only, and Christina is SONNY'S daughter." Way to break the news! One would think that would have been HIPAA protected information since Liz only knew because of HLA matching for a potential bone marrow transplant! I could -- but won't -- go on and on about the depths to which I despise Liz! Boobie is only somewhat better.

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Nurse Ratchet

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Specializes in 15 years in ICU, 22 years in PACU.

Mrs. Emerson from the movie "Coma".

Talk about a creepy character but she ran the whole dang hospital herself without blinking an eye. (Literally, she never blinks. Very unnerving.)

Not that I necessarily want to be like her, but she is my favorite TV/Movie nurse. I saw this movie before I even went to nursing school and still wanted to be a nurse.

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Coma is truly a "must see" medical thriller. The creepy Nurse Emerson, played by Elizabeth Ashley, can be found on Video 17 at minute 2.46.

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Meridith from Grey's Anatomy---she isn't afraid to go against what others believe.

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Zoey Barkow - from Nurse Jackie. She learned from the best and she's HILARIOUS. :)

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Meridith from Grey's Anatomy---she isn't afraid to go against what others believe.

True but she's a doctor.

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

Dana Delaney's nurse character (Colleen McMurphy? can't remember her name) in China Beach.

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Because Pawnee

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Nurse Jackie! Tough as nails with a heart of gold!

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Don't forget about Chief Nurse officer Christina Hawthorne who showed fierceness and stubborn selflessness

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