New TV Show- Nurse Nation on MTV

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Have y'all heard about the new TV show MTV is working on titled 'Nurse Nation'!? I don't have the quote from Entertainment Weekly, but it reads something like "a docuseries thay follows 9 young hard-partying travel nurses as they explore a new city for 13 weeks."

The premiere date has yet to be announced, but MTV has greenlit the show and others to replace the hole that Jersey Shore is leaving in their network. What are your thoughts? Excited to watch it or annoyed at how they may portray travel RNs?

Specializes in ICU/PACU.

Oh wow. I can't see it catching on like jersey shore so I'm not too worried. I'm excited because what we do is pretty cool IMO. I just hope the nurses they choose aren't complete idiots.

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The focus is on the nursing profession - not the diseases, not the docs, not the patients. Nurse Jackie gave nurses a bad name, and this is an opportunity to present RN's in a good light. This is a "docu-series".

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Specializes in ICU + Infection Prevention.

Sweetsabo thanks for posting but...

Nurse Jackie gave nurses a bad name, and this is an opportunity to present RN's in a good light. ... This is a "docu-series". ...

Documentaries on MTV... bound to be as drama-free, complimentary, and impartial as Behind the Music? Pardon me if I don't hold my breath. May I hopefully be proven wrong.

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I guess I'll believe it when I see it. I'm interested in seeing how it all pans out with HIPAA and stuff.

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I guess more pseudo reality television sounds like a good idea, in stead of going back to playing music....

It's a good thing I am a trama junkie, because this feels like it will be a train wreck.

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Specializes in ICU/PACU.

Interesting. What city are they filming in if you don't mind me asking?

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Specializes in NICU, Peds, Med-Surg.

I just did some searching, and it looks as though it hasn't started yet---I am REALLY curious, and wonder how much of their WORK life we will see...as sweetasbo said--with HIPPA, etc.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
I just did some searching, and it looks as though it hasn't started yet---I am REALLY curious, and wonder how much of their WORK life we will see...as sweetasbo said--with HIPPA, etc.
HIPAA...it's HIPAA....sorry pet peeve....:shy: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA; Pub.L. 104–191, 110 Stat. 1936, enacted August 21, 1996) was enacted by the United States Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996.

If the patients sign a release....they're good.

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If it is anything like the jersey shore it will be my favorite new reality show

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So disappointed to hear #MTV is airing a new show this fall called #nursenation or? #scrubbingin about travel nurses and their "work hard play hard" life "at its best" as the commercial aired they say "we are going alittle crazy tonight but you would too if you had a day like we did" How dare reality tv take such a genuine career choice and proceed to generalize it into a partying type career in o...ur spare time. It's insulting. It turns my stomach to even see these nurses creating assumptions for the general public that us nurses need to party to get the pressures if this job off our shoulders. Yes, our jobs can be difficult and sometimes more so than some other occupations, but for goodness sake, you should be ashamed of yourself as a nurse to make any patient feel like they are a hindrance to your life. You may have a hard day, something's we deal with are heartbreaking, but at the end of the day I GET TO GO HOME! I am not the cancer patient who can't stop vomiting, or the parents waiting next to their baby's incubator, or the new widow making arrangements w the morgue, or the young mother w a new diagnosis of breast cancer. My career enables God to remind me of the endless blessings in my life day after day. I am proud of my profession. I wouldn't desire to do anything else. I pray that MTV isn't able to do what it is absolutely best at; demeaning and magnifying the shameful generation that is being created today. Nurses please stay aware and stand up for the amazing job we do. Patients please do not ever feel that you do not have the right to your health, your dignity, and your pain (physical, emotional and spiritual)to be managed to the best of us healthcare providers' ability.

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:) :) :) :)

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Specializes in They know this too!.

Yuck, really? Parties I am trying to support a family this job isn't a joke to me. I can't even get a permanent position amywhere yet I can do anything and my experience is vast. I didn't come into this field for the money or to have a great time living it up partying the night away so I can have a hang over in the morning taking care of patients. I came into it to help people. Sometimes my family and I are homeless and it always interests me what types have something to show for their career. Not all but some. SMH not interested.

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