On-Set Movie Nursing Jobs

DoGoodThenGo · Mar 17, 2010

Does anyone know how to find info on nursing jobs on movie sets and how to apply for them?

Does this help?

http://rn.modernmedicine.com/rnweb/Professional/Medic-to-the-stars/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/447325

lamazeteacher · Mar 17, 2010

My take on this, is that nurses and paramedics can predict whether actors are going to be able to continue to work on a day that they appear ill and say that they can't work. Probably nurse practitioners would be more appropriate. due to their ability to prescribe. They also know when something could be contagious. I'd imagine that child actors need an assessment occasionally to be considered "fit to work", when their behavior indicates otherwise.

The object on most productions, is to lose as little time as possible. It's extremely costly to dither, and nurses can be quite decisive (you'd have to be, to do that work).

What I wish, is that they'd use us on programs about hospitals and doctors. As we all know, there's a huge absense of accuracy regarding who does what and to whom, there. "House" seems to doubt the existance of nurses as valuable medical team members, while other programs seem to give the impression that everyone's really interested in who has sex with whom...... boring......

It would be great if they'd give some information about lifesaving stuff, like having a working telephone AND 1 AED for every 200 people who are likely to be somewhere, at work, in large apartment complexes, concert halls, etc. Lack of available accurate information has them locked in managers' offices, with no telephone around... It just reinforces misinformation when an actor starts CPR without calling 911! :nono:

I worked with another childbirth educator on the set of "All in the Family" (you all may be after the time of that funny series). The daughter in that family was expecting a baby, and the director wanted to know exactly what she'd know after taking childbirth preparation classes. I was so proud of Sally Struthers' ability to retain the information given to her, when she said, "I can't talk when I'm having a contraction! I have to breathe!" The writers had given her a line to say...(She was thin and adorable, then.)