HOPKINS: 20 minutes into the show

[HopeItWorksDNP]

I was really looking forward to this series. I thought, FINALLY, a tv show that depicts REAL hospital life. So here I am, 20 minutes into the very first show of the series, wondering as usual: Where the HECK are all the nurses?

Are there really hospitals out there that function without nurses? Where docotors outnumber the nursing staff 4 to 1? Because that's about the ratio I'm picking up from this "true-life" depiction. And that's not a nurse they introduced us to...its just one I happened to catch walking by in the background. Its discouraging to me. No wonder the public has such a skewed perception of what we really do. Television seems to completely leave us out. Sigh...................we still need to come up with our own tv show.

[sirI, MSN, APRN, NP]

Threads merged.

[platon20]

The CT surgeon dude and his marital struggles were just boring, and I don't think that he handled that chest tube placement very well. To tell the patient to let him know if she needs more meds then let her scream her way through the procedure was unnecessary. If the lido wasn't cutting it, (and it often doesn't) then hasn't he heard of a couple of mgs of versed and some fentanyl? Though the patient was on a non-rebreather and was uncomfortable, she didn't look unstable enough to not take the couple of additional minutes to make her comfortable. Then again he may have been the victim of editing there.

Don't know if I will continue to watch. I will have to decide if the patient stories are enough to keep me in the game.

Thats easy to say from the whole 20 seconds of footage and background info about the pateint you got from TV. Bethea responded to this critique on the ABC website and stated that it was an emergent chest tube because the lady's venous return was starting to fall.

Versed is not a good option for those patients anyways.