NBC's The Nurses - Just another nurse show?

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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.

 

Specializes in ICU/community health/school nursing.
On 12/8/2020 at 10:16 AM, NurseBlaq said:

And my ginger ale, can't eat popcorn with no drink!

I laughed myself into a coughing fit and I'm hiding under my desk right now....

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Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).

Late to the party as usual - but just the glaring assumptions and ommisions in the trailer would steer me away - if I watched medical shows (which I don't).

I do nursing every single day of my life just about - I want fantasy and escape from television!

Hppy

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Specializes in LTC.

The only medical show I’ve ever liked is Scrubs (but not the last season!). 

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Specializes in Flight/ICU-CCU/ER/Paramedic.

PAINful.  
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”The ER is like high school with dying”. 
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Nope. Life is short. I’ve got too many other things to do. 

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Specializes in Emergency/med surg.

couldnt get past the first 7 mins - awful awful - so disappointing - nurses are the backbone of this pandemic response and now they make a show insulting us and completely misrepresenting us!! 

within the first 7 mins a doctor directly donates blood to a trauma patient since there is "NO O- blood left in the entire country" thats ethical right? 

and then a nurse performs an US on a pregnant woman who syncopized (no MD eval yet) and the nurse tells the pt that the placenta is totally fine - OKAY when the F would this ever happen in real life - oh right never. 

"ER" was the only medical show that was even remotely realistic and actually factual!! I learned watching that show - "Nurses" just stupid 

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Specializes in Critical care, tele, Medical-Surgical.

Back in the 70s a friend, who is not a nurse, said, "General Hospital is the best show on TV. Barr none."

I watched it once. A patient was in a hospital bed with ventilator bellows working. Not intubated, just a nasal cannula not attached to anything. AND the side rails were down!

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On Chicago Hope the "head nurse" in the ED also scrubbed in to a heart transplant with the doc she was having an affair with. If memory serves me correctly she's the one who dropped the heart on the floor (yes, they scooped it up, cleaned it and transplanted it). Then there was the episode about the female resident dying of a brain tumor that expired unnoticed in her room. Chief of staff says to nurse "Why has nobody checked on this patient?" Nurse says "Doctor, she was a DNR. There was NO ORDER to check on the patient." Well, that knocked nursing back about 300 years!!

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16 hours ago, sevensonnets said:

On Chicago Hope the "head nurse" in the ED also scrubbed in to a heart transplant with the doc she was having an affair with. If memory serves me correctly she's the one who dropped the heart on the floor (yes, they scooped it up, cleaned it and transplanted it). Then there was the episode about the female resident dying of a brain tumor that expired unnoticed in her room. Chief of staff says to nurse "Why has nobody checked on this patient?" Nurse says "Doctor, she was a DNR. There was NO ORDER to check on the patient." Well, that knocked nursing back about 300 years!!

I would have never watched that show again...... ever! What the what?

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Specializes in OB.

I saw a commercial for it and knew I wouldn't be able to sit through 5 minutes.  While "ER" was by no means perfect, and got crazier and crazier story lines as it went on, I still loved that show and thought Nurse Carol Hathaway was a great character.  Side note, I just saw the other day that "Grey's Anatomy" is STILL on TV? 17th season or something like that???  Crazy.  Talk about making me want to throw something at the TV...

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Chicago Hope started about the same time as ER. Understandably, it didn't last long. I switched to ER after the DNR episode. Don't know what happened to the patient that got the heart that got dumped on the floor.

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Tele/ER/Urgent Care.

Just watching the trailer was difficult to stay focused, it basically sucked! THe charge nurse and who is the woman with the accent? Nope this show is doomed! ER was the only medical show that actually represents nurses working with doctors in a realistic manner. I actually watched all 15? Seasons when covid started.

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Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).
1 hour ago, PollywogNP said:

Just watching the trailer was difficult to stay focused, it basically sucked! THe charge nurse and who is the woman with the accent? Nope this show is doomed! ER was the only medical show that actually represents nurses working with doctors in a realistic manner. I actually watched all 15? Seasons when covid started.

Where were you able to stream it from? I've never been able to find it!

 

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