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 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.

The trailer was on the first post on this discussion 

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On 12/9/2020 at 11:27 PM, magellan said:

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.

^This. I don't watch anything vaguely medical anymore. Even re-runs of Scrubs get to me now, and I liked Scrubs. My home is my sanctuary from pandemic nursing. 

On 12/10/2020 at 2:19 PM, Crystal-Wings said:

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

We do not speak of the last season. 

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On 12/8/2020 at 5:39 PM, herring_RN said:

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) 

You knew Tim! He just retired last year, except he had already been in U.R. since I started working there so I never got to work with him directly, but he's a County ER legend. I don't know if you knew this already, but in the ER lobby shooting in 1993, Tim literally scooped up one of the injured doctors and carried him straight to C-booth, saving his life. He wasn't the inspiration for Jesse though. That nurse is featured a bit on the documentary Code Black and also retired last year.  

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Specializes in Peds, Med-Surg, Disaster Nsg, Parish Nsg.

So.... Who watched last night's episode? My eyebrows were raised many times throughout...  What about the nurse who came from a very wealthy family and had servants to do everything (including making beds)...  and she never learned to make a bed in nursing school... and she always paid others to do it?!?!?!  

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Whoever you are at home, it doesn't matter. You need to follow the job descriptions that you signed up for during your employment contract signing or else, your license is on the line if you can't follow it. But in return, you'll gonna be paid. So it's a give and take relationship between you and your employer.

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5 minutes ago, magellan said:

Whoever you are at home, it doesn't matter. You need to follow the job descriptions that you signed up for during your employment contract signing or else, your license is on the line if you can't follow it. But in return, you'll gonna be paid. So it's a give and take relationship between you and your employer.

I doubt anyone is going to lose their license over not making a bed! Might get suspended or fired in the long run, but that's different from losing a license!

Hppy

 

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On 12/15/2020 at 5:20 AM, SquishyRN said:

You knew Tim! He just retired last year, except he had already been in U.R. since I started working there so I never got to work with him directly, but he's a County ER legend. I don't know if you knew this already, but in the ER lobby shooting in 1993, Tim literally scooped up one of the injured doctors and carried him straight to C-booth, saving his life. He wasn't the inspiration for Jesse though. That nurse is featured a bit on the documentary Code Black and also retired last year.  

Exciting to read this Squishy! I only worked in the ER twice. (Mostly cared for inpatient critical care.) I didn't know his reputation, but DID know he was an exceptional amazing charge nurse.

I will look up the documentary Code Black.

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Specializes in NICU, Oncology, Pediatrics.

  Not any nursing position or actions that I would accept that properly portray a nurses day. I have never seen a hospital make assignments like this nor have nurses so stupid as to not know what to do in most of those situations. Unless it changes in the portrayal of nurses and how a hospital works, then I don’t see it lasting very well. Unless you planned on it being a laughing joke among nurses!??

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9 hours ago, magellan said:

Whoever you are at home, it doesn't matter. You need to follow the job descriptions that you signed up for during your employment contract signing or else, your license is on the line if you can't follow it. But in return, you'll gonna be paid. So it's a give and take relationship between you and your employer.

Sometimes an emoji captures enough ?

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

I watched the second episode last night. Didn’t really impress me any more than the first one did. And there is NO WAY to get through nursing school without learning to make beds, whether occupied or unoccupied. It’s one of the first skills you learn and get checked off on. Silly.

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On 12/7/2020 at 6:30 PM, tnbutterfly - Mary said:

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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.

 

If I want to watch a show occasionally demean nurses, I would rather watch house. At least he was hilarious. Nurse Jackie was the only nursing show that I watched without reservations or utter dismay of how some things are depicted. 

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3 minutes ago, VivaLasViejas said:

I watched the second episode last night. Didn’t really impress me any more than the first one did. And there is NO WAY to get through nursing school without learning to make beds, whether occupied or unoccupied. It’s one of the first skills you learn and get checked off on. Silly.

I don't even know why such trivial things as making beds are part of nursing skills. I have never seen a nurse in the acute setting make a bed and include the elaborate corner folds (forgot the name). I think these were part of the original job description of the Nightingale era. 

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