Learning from TV

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If I hear another instructor tell us in class, "It's not like Grey's Anatomy" one more time, I think I may scream. Of course it isn't like that. Grey's is television. Fiction. It's very nature is entertainment.

However, I am never one to throw the proverbial baby out with the bath water...

I am currently a nursing student who still works at my local hospital as an aide and clerk on the weekends. Recently, I watched an episode of Grey's Anatomy that hit home. It's from season 6 and entitled "I Saw What I Saw." It's available on Netflix. It's about a chaotic day in the ER with mass casualties and all the typical drama that goes with it on tv. However, it goes moment by moment from different physicians' perspectives on what all went on during the shift that led to a preventable death. The ultimate cause? The assessing physician failed to look inside a patient's mouth during the initial assessment. Dr. Webber tells the doctor what a good doctor she is. But ultimately, she is fired. Although it is fiction, I think episodes such as this can be a valuable teaching tool. It certainly made me think.

On another note, I have been watching their "code" scenes. Most of the time they shock, it has been v-fib. But I did see Karev break asepsis. Just sayin....

Any thoughts?

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It's just a tv show. Hopefully Miami PD doesn't get their official training from watching Miami Vice reruns.

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LOL! I would hope not as well....

I'm not saying to teach solely off tv....that's just silly. Just saying that particular episode did a good job of teaching and making one think. There are plenty of others that don't....

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Ive learned a lot of nursinh things from watching CSI lol. Ive learned certain meds by watching television and so on. You can learn a few things from them but not everything lol

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We had an ATI pretest today and one of the ?s was about what PPE is donned before going into a surgery room. I have to say when doing my mental check off, the scrub in scenes from Grey's popped in my head lol. I know, its sad :)

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We had an ATI pretest today and one of the ?s was about what PPE is donned before going into a surgery room. I have to say when doing my mental check off the scrub in scenes from Grey's popped in my head lol. I know, its sad :)[/quote']

Sometimes life imitates art.

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