Finally, nurses are portrayed right in media

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Don't you just love Epiphany Johnson on General Hospital? Modern Nurse has a great story about this. Nurses are no longer portrayed in TV shows as mere accessories or even servants! She's confident, dedicated and hardworking like most of us truly are.

http://www.modrnnurse.com/cover-stories/article/epiphany.aspx

Specializes in OB, M/S, HH, Medical Imaging RN.
I thought I was the only one who got worked up about all of this stuff! I also like how Lucky got hooked on the M/S PCA - how he got a dose EVERY time he pushed the button. Did you notice that everyone referred to the PCA as a drip...

All My Children did the same thing with Julia. 10 years after nursing school she took a refresher course and was floating all over the hospital the next day.

Yeah wow! Julia is some super nurse. If the patient is preggers, she's an OB expert nurse, if the patient has a head injury, wow she's an expert neuro nurse, trauma victim? She an expert ER nurse. They do such an injustice to real health professionals. However, I do love my ABC soaps. I've been watching for 30+ years. Of course it used to be only in the summer until the invention of the VCR. Now I can watch 3 hours of soaps in an hour or less.

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Wow is that show still on tv. I remember people watching it when I was little kid. Must be on for around 50 years. Did not watch it then, don't watch it now.

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Yes, it was really funny when Robin gave Laura the drug without actually "pushing"--just needle in, needle out...

But soap operas in general do so much to educate the public about health conditions (like, on GH in particular, Alexis's lung cancer, Lucky's addiction to prescription drugs, and Sonny's bi-polar struggles). It's really quite honorable. Just a few weeks after the new CPR recommendations came out, I saw a soap opera character administering CPR the new way--even though most of the audience was probably like, what? why doesn't he know how to do CPR?.

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Specializes in Looking for a career in NICU.

That's why I watch Young and the Restless...once someone is dead, they usually stay dead. None of that nutty stuff, like exorcisms, demon posessions, etc.

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I've been a GH fan for over 30 years but I hate how nurses are so interchangeable...ie...ER/OR/ICU/Floor nurse all in the same shift. Kinda like walking the halls of the hospital and finding a patient or case you like and just taking over!

That used to kill me on that show Strong Medicine. The gynecologists would go from running codes in the ER to performing heart and brain surgery. But like someone said, that's true of all professions on the soaps. Need a lawyer? Call your local divorce/defense/contract/corporate lawyer!

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Oncology.

I think what really bugged me the most about Elizabeth was the extremely short amount of time that she was a nursing student, it was like a month between when she chose to go into nursing and when she started working as a nurse.

I can't say to much about going from dept to dept, in the last 3 days I worked IMC, then ICU, and back to my home medical floor. (Never mind that I'm only trained to work the medical floor).

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