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I don't know how many of you guys watch those medical shows like Greys anatomy, private practice, house, nurse jackie etc.

I have a hard time watching them because of all the False and un-researched stuff that occurs on the shows. If they want these shows to sound legit, they need to do more research on them!

Couple examples:

(Dont remember what show exactly) But doctor gave the patient a glascow coma scale of 3, but yet the patient was responding to voice and answering yes/no questions by blinking eyes....hmm???

Greys Anatomy: Dr. Grey was listening to a patient who had SOB, and she listens, but her stethoscope is not in correctly....Highly doubt you hear crackles in the lung fields Dr. Grey.

any others any one notices??

Specializes in floor to ICU.

Side Rails down, green sheets on the beds, pt w/ a trach/ETT PLUS nasal cannula...

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And then there's those darn monitors that go beep..beep..beep..beep.

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Specializes in Med-Surg/DOU/Ortho/Onc/Rehab/ER/.

None of them ever do CPR right...

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Specializes in LTC.

What gets me are the shows where the nurses work in all different departments during the same shift...can't remember specifically, but I think it was on Mercy. One minute the RN was talking with a leukemia pt who was in reverse isolation, next minute she's talking to the EMT's in the ER, and the scene after that she was arguing with the ICU doc about one of her patients there. :lol2:

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Yeah, very unrealistic like Chicago Hope was (I'm glad it's gone). The "head nurse" in the ER personally greeted patients, accompanied them to the OR, and scrubbed in to their surgery!

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Specializes in Intermediate care.
Yeah, very unrealistic like Chicago Hope was (I'm glad it's gone). The "head nurse" in the ER personally greeted patients, accompanied them to the OR, and scrubbed in to their surgery!

We seriously have this position in our hospital!! It isnt always an ER nurse, but we call it "door duty" it can be any nurse in the hospital on any floor. If we have low census and they need someone on door duty, you could be sent down. basically..its anurse that stands infront of the ER doors, directs patients where to go, accompany them to where they need to be.

I've never been on door duty, but i've heard stories. Personally, i think its a waste of time but easy money!

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I love the new Off The Map on ABC. It's like the MacGuyver of the med field! :D lol

The clinic gets robbed of all meds and they have to do a surgery, so the doc (who happens to be an exaddict) goes out into the jungle to get heroin, discovers someone Od'ing, saves their life and gets back just in time with the goods...

Amusing stuff!

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Specializes in ICU, Telemetry.

What gets me is the person is supposed to be coding and they either:

Shock asystole

Or,

The person's in normal sinus, and they are shocking away....

I've heard about actors falling asleep during episodes where they were playing patients and starting to snore. Now that would be a good blooper reel if the "patient" starts snoring during their "code."

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Specializes in Emergency.

I remember a particular episode of House where someone is going to push 4mg of morphine and Chase freaks out, stating that "if you mainline that much morphine, you'll stop his heart!"

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Specializes in LTC.
I remember a particular episode of House where someone is going to push 4mg of morphine and Chase freaks out, stating that "if you mainline that much morphine, you'll stop his heart!"

:lol2:

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yeah, on house the docs even do the ultrasounds and ct scans. my pet peeve is code blues on medical shows. dr. smith to the icu. code blue icu. stand back. clear. he's gone. whole code takes about 30 seconds!

however.....!!!!! a couple of weeks ago when cuddy's mom was in the hospital and her heart stopped, cuddy ran over to her bedside and shouted; "nurse"!!! woot woot!! (whatever that means!!!) ;)

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Specializes in psych,telephonic,LTACH.

stethoscope backwards is a big pet peeve for me as well! however i LOVE greys anatomy and private practice- its all fantasy to me. OH and hawthorne!!!! have any of you run into that CNO/CCO who ACTUALLY supports and fights for his/her nurses?1?!?!?! yeah right!

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