NBC's The Nurses - Just another nurse show?

[tnbutterfly - Mary]

The latest Nurse show premiers tonight on NBC at 10 PM ET. Will you be watching as "five young nurses embark on a high-stakes, life-and-death, emotional rollercoaster of modern nursing"? 

If you do watch it, come back here and tell us what you think.  Will you be watching for errors or misrepresentations of what nurses really do???  

Watch the official NBC trailer.

 

[sirI, MSN, APRN, NP]

42 minutes ago, Jedrnurse said:

Satellite without one of the major broadcast stations? Sacrilege!!

Actually, NBC and Fox including all MLB networks.

[Red Shirt 6, CNA]

I was working when it aired so I caught on streaming. After the narration and introduction of the charters a major disaster happens on their first day. The show briefly has the nurses in Emergency, L&D, OR, and or ICU. It hints at some drama, conflicts, and some relationships that may happen.

The show has elements from other popular medical type of shows and even had a sub plot from St. Elsewhere. To me the pilot episode was very average so I will have to see the second episode to decide if it is worth watching.  

[VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN]

I’m not sure I like it. It’s kind of formulaic—nurse cares for patient who has just plowed into a crowd of people with his car (most of whom show up at the hospital too), nurse battles with her colleagues and her conscience, nurse decides to continue caring for the patient after all. We’ve all seen that scenario in one form or another in every medical show ever produced. So I’ll watch again...maybe the next episode will be better.

[klone, MSN, RN]

I heard it sucked, and is just another typical wildly inaccurate medical show, per usual.

[caliotter3]

Beginning was a watered down version of the first scene of Code Black, which I miss.  Give me Code Black or Nurse Jackie any day.  Don't see myself watching this.

[klone, MSN, RN]

1 minute ago, caliotter3 said:

Beginning was a watered down version of the first scene of Code Black, which I miss.  Give me Code Black or Nurse Jackie any day.  Don't see myself watching this.

Hey, fun fact. One of my very good friends whom I worked with in Oregon - her son was a writer for Code Black. Any time there was anything involving L&D, he would consult her for technical details. Also, he would make characters have his sister's name, and then he'd kill the character off.

[caliotter3]

At least Code Black was exciting enough to hold my interest and that male nurse was a great character.

[herring_RN, ASN, BSN]

I too enjoyed Code Black. 

In 1999 and 2000 I worked a lot of registry shifts, many at "Big County". Once I worked in the "Red Blanket Room", but was assigned a GI bleed, and  R/O MI. The charge nurse was a man named Tim. He was excellent! He seemed to have a routine for  telling new nurses where to find supplies, how to chart, and important ER protocols. (I was a CCU/ICU nurse, neither educated nor experienced in emergency nursing). 

I like to think he was who that he was the inspiration for  the nurse "Jesse" AKA "Mama". They didn't look alike, but the humanity and competence were like the charge nurse I remember. 

I wouldn't be surprised if all the situations happened, but not all on the same shift. (Thankfully) 

[NurseBlaq]

1 hour ago, klone said:

Hey, fun fact. One of my very good friends whom I worked with in Oregon - her son was a writer for Code Black. Any time there was anything involving L&D, he would consult her for technical details. Also, he would make characters have his sister's name, and then he'd kill the character off.

Pent up sister issues eh? He sounds like a peach!

[herring_RN, ASN, BSN]

On 12/7/2020 at 4:36 PM, sirI said:

I'd love to watch, @tnbutterfly - Mary, but my TV satellite service dropped NBC. ?

We no longer have cable or satellite TV. I get ABC, CBS, NBC, their extra channels, and three PBS channels. It's enough TV for me. Not very interested in this, but will probably watch sometimes.

[klone, MSN, RN]

I tried. I made it about 20 minutes. I might give it another go. Maybe after a couple gin and tonics.

[magellan]

I can't watch it anymore because its another emotional intense drama. In our work, there's so much of it and hard to stomach it anymore when you get home watching it. Let the other people watch it so they'll know the overview how intense our job entails.