hawthorne--opinion?

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I just watched the show "Hawthorne" on the TNT channel. It's a new drama about nurses. I liked it... It seems to be a realistic portrayl of what nurses do. I'm glad there's finally a show about nurses. Nurses deserve immense respect for what they do...They're equally important as doctors imo. Did anyone else watch it? What did you think?

Specializes in Rehab, Med Surg, Home Care.
one thing I did not like was the nurse giving the male patient a genital massage...

Um...wasn't she shaving the guy? Although don't know why they were prepping for groin access if the problem was with cerebral circulation?

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Specializes in Rehab, Med Surg, Home Care.

In general I thought the show was a huge step in the right direction. JPS is depicted as doing things nurses actually do, and encountering many of the kinds of daily dilemmas we wrestle with. (Like the PIA patient we secretly wish would just drop dead-sheer evil genius!) It was heartening to have them show that nursing staff does the majority of actual hands-on care-but the CNO? Come on! In real life (s)he might be in close touch with the actual day to day operations of the facility-but she would be likely to spend more time in the office than on actual patient contact. Anyway, I will be very interested to watch the characters and plot lines develop. I hope it will be a sucess.

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I enjoyed the show. I saw nurse Jackie. It was like all the other said, a horrible show. Jada did a good job with this show and I look forward to seeing it each week.

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no she was not shaving him...

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Specializes in Emergency.
Wow that seems gross. That nurse ("Nurse Jackie") could be sued for sexual harassment if she did it in real life, very unprofessional. From reading that, it doesn't sound like a realistic portrayl at all...

That quote I was referring to was from Hawthorne. lol. But yeah Nurse Jackie is a gross character, and I didn't like it.

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I didn't make it all the way through the first episode of "Hawthorne," and I won't watch it again. I thought the writing was awful, some of the plot twists were cliched (a nurse giving a patient a sexual favor?), and Jada Pinkett Smith was over the top.

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I personally don't like " NURSE JACKIE" ! It has this nurse Jackie as the charge I believe of an ER, she has a back injury and pops pills that she gets from the pharmacist, his pay is that she screws him in the pharmacy behind a shade, however, she has 2 yound girls at home and a very handsome husband ( much younger than she). I don't see this as very realistic! At the same time, she is a wonderful advocate for her patients! You watch it and judge for yourself! I find the show insulting to "normal" hardworking nurses!

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Specializes in neurology, cardiology, ED.

I think HawthoRNe could become a good show, once the characters are all better developed... I do hope they either fire Candy for giving her "special" care, or the character at least has a change of heart, I mean, come on! I also don't like that the only male nurse has a chip on his shoulder about not going to medical school... he should have a epiphany where he realizes that he loves nursing, and would have hated being a doc!

But, overall, the show has potential, and is definitely more realistic than any other hospital drama on TV.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

I watched "HawthoRNe" twice. Ugh. Totally ridiculous portrayal of nurses. In one episode she was moving a terminally ill patient into a STORAGE ROOM to entice the patient's son to come and spend time with the patient in a "private" space. Hawthorne's daughter was running around taking pictures of patients and procedures on her cell phone for a touching school project. Helloooo.....HIPAA??

Total BS.

"Nurse Jackie"? Wow. Totally flawed as a human being but IMHO this show has more raw reality and truth than the pap that was pandered in "HawthoRNe." Is she representative of most nurses? Certainly not. But she is more human, more real, IMHO, than the ridiculous caricature that is Hawthorne.

As one who tosses major roll-eyes at the "angel of mercy" label that is slapped on nurses I have to go with Jackie.

Maybe it's a demographics thing. I lived in the NY metro area for most of my life, cut my ICU teeth in a county hospital. LOL---I actually worked with an RN who was Edie Falco's cousin. Gotta love it. :)

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Specializes in ED/trauma.

I don't like Hawthorne because it does not portray nurses the right way. I mean come on the director of nursing is available at every crisis, and is readily available to every nurse everytime they have a personal dilemma. I haven't seen my DON in a year. Also think the writing and story lines are horrible!

Nurse Jackie is over the top as a person (draws veiwers in), but the plot of this story is more like what goes on in my ED every single day. Some of the episodes seem like I wrote them (without all the drugs/sex:)

I am personally awaitng the start (sept I think) of the show "Mercy," I think it looks really promising...

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i love Hawthorne i think that it about time that there is a show that focuses on nurses, this show is very refreshing and i'm glad to hear that its been renewed for a second season. :yeah:

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Specializes in Critical Care.
i love Hawthorne i think that it about time that there is a show that focuses on nurses, this show is very refreshing and i'm glad to hear that its been renewed for a second season. :yeah:

Why is an inaccurate, unrealistic, and patently ridiculous portrayal of nurses "refreshing"? :banghead:

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