House, MD last night.....AAAGH!

[SteveNNP]

Did anyone see House, MD last night? Normally I really like the show, but recently it's gotten on my nerves. Last night, after the patient soiled himself, the doc looked over at the other one and said, "We need a nurse!" AAGH!! Not only do the docs mix and administer all meds, draw labs, code the pts singlehandedly, deal w/family, operate CT/MRI machines, etc, but they have to make it seem that all the seldom seen nurses do is clean crap!~ Bleccchhh. I think I've lost my appetite for House, MD.

Any additional thoughts?:angryfire

[ClaireMacl]

We used to have an SHO who got bedpans for the patient, at one handover we were all at the board, he went to the dirty utility and got a comode and walked past the 20 nurses at handover with it, noone has ever got such a round of applause than that guy

Btw, I love House, ER and all the medical dramas, so I can pick holes in them mainly lol.... like on ER once they said someone had a BP of 46/110, I was shouting at the telly that they were dead, oddly they lived

[yvonnemuse, BSN, RN]

My husband is a fan of all the medical shows . However he hates to watch them with me because I have a running commentary like, "o, no side rails" Gloves! you ever hear of gloves?" Thats a HIPPA violation!!" etc. I did like Grey's Anatomy last week though.There is a definate truth to the idea that a nurse will be your best asset or cause you headaches depending how you treat her!

The entertainment industry does have take liberties or it would be too much like real life at work. Periods of monotony puncuated by insanity.

[genRN]

hi! i usually watchthe show too, but havent seen the episode you've referred to (since i'm not in the US, i've only seen 1st season episodes). i love the show so far cause i like assessing patients. i love how they describe the cases-how such an everyday symptom is part of an unlikely disease. and yeah, doctors giving the meds, operating the cat scan and mri- not really real life isn't it? :chuckle oh well, its tv. its a doctor centered show, so i guess portraying nurses in the grubwork light is kind of a given..

gen

[sandiixx]

I LOVE House and i find it very tongue in cheek and funny:) I NEVER miss an episode and I would marry that arrogant pain in the butt doctor any day:rotfl: I think we need to take it for what it is, just entertainment. Anyway i like the way they work out what disease is causing the complaint:)

[peacemover]

I loved ER in its earlier days- except the stuff that happens in one episode (particularly their "holiday" episodes) is a collection of years and years of crazy stories jam-packed into an episode or two...

I have heard good things about Grey's Anatomy- a couple of the pediatricians and nurses were talking favorably about it at peds rounds last week...

I have not seen House- the TV spots always looked a bit too spooky and off the wall for me to consider taking the time to watch it...

So what are your favorite TV depictions of nurses of all-time?

Peace,

John

[Sumatra]

Yes, spooky is part of the show's charm. I'm not in the medical field, but even I can see the lack of realism in the show. I wouldn't let House and his colleagues near me in real life, but I love the show because it's so off the wall. What was that weird show set in a hospital in Boston many years ago? That had both doctors and nurses. I always watched it. St. Elsewhere?

[jeanrnurse]

LOL, I saw that, then her attending made the comment "ticking off the nurses...not a wise thing to do" I rolled!!!! :chuckle

Revenge may be sweet, as in this case, but the only way these shows MIGHT look at nurses in a proessional light is if we write the networks and tell the how these comments are demeaning. I also watched Grey's Anatomy enough to know that the overall view of nurses is not too bright; certainly not colleagues.

Another alternaitve to writing the network is to join the ANA, whose officers regularly monitor medical programs and write the networks, or offer consultants to present nursing in a realistic light. Remember, they took "Dr. Phil" to taks about his comments, and he promised to do a show on nurses.