The attitude towards nurses on the ABC show Grey's Anatomy...

OR2ER, BSN, RN · Jul 10, 2006

don't feel bad about the show..it ain't the real world.as far as i am concern, i am treated fairly well by our doctors and fellow nurses.respect,i think, is the right word.our doctors do compliment our work most of the time(of course can't get away with doctors who are jerks!).

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Jul 10, 2006

It may not be the real world, but look at who the creative consultants are in the credits. I tried watching that show, thought it was horrible, the only perk of it being Patrick Dempsey.

If i have ONE more family member ask me if "Them doctors on Gray's Anatomy, is that the way they are where you work", i'll scream. I'm sure that my family's not the only ones thinking that.

Do i feel valued. Yes and no. Some people treat nurses like pawns in a chess game, others realize that they are people.

KayceeLeeRN, BSN, RN · Jul 11, 2006

I was recently watching some episodes of ABC's Grey's Anatomy and I noticed that the characters on the show have a horrible attitude towards nurses...as if they are no needed and really unqualified. They call another person a nurse as an insult. Now I realize that this is because the characters are surgeons and that they have put way too much work into school to be "just" a nurse, but what do you all think? For those of you already out in the world working, what are your doctors attitudes toward you? Do you feel valued? Thanks for all your input.
Rosalee

I know what you mean! I dont watch Grey's Anatomy, but I do know that it is centered around doctors/surgeons...as in ER, House, Scrubs, Dr. 90210, Nip/Tuck, Life in the ER....just to name a few...

It frustrates me that the media never seems to portray nurses..well, at all (if they do, its never anything to be looked up to).

Walk into any ER and look around, NURSES are running the REAL SHOW!

darlanow · Jul 11, 2006

Most of us probably aren't watching it for the medicine...

I saw an episode of "The Critical Hour" on cable recently in which the ER doc was saying, "it's the nurses that run things here... we could get by if one of our ER docs wasn't here, but let one of the nurses be gone and it woulen't work." My husband has asked if I think I'm going to like being a nurse instead of a doctor (I start school in August). Since this show matched what I observed in the ER as an EMT student, I told him about it. Those ambulance doors opened and boom, boom, boom, the nurses were all over it. One doc said to me, "this is the part where I just stay out of the way..." and then he went in when it was time.

(Besides, I don't want the life of a doctor... unless it's a radio show kind and I can be the anti-Dr. Laura! I'm a clinical social worker/psychotherapist now and could whip her psychological butt. Of course, most people off the street with common sense could do that!)

Jo Dirt · Jul 11, 2006

I was recently watching some episodes of ABC's Grey's Anatomy and I noticed that the characters on the show have a horrible attitude towards nurses...as if they are no needed and really unqualified. They call another person a nurse as an insult. Now I realize that this is because the characters are surgeons and that they have put way too much work into school to be "just" a nurse, but what do you all think? For those of you already out in the world working, what are your doctors attitudes toward you? Do you feel valued? Thanks for all your input.
Rosalee

I think you should not base reality on that silly show, or any other "drama." That is just what it is: drama. It's all about histrionic prima donnas and people posturing around pretending to be something they aren't about something they know nothing about if it isn't in the script. First of all, you will be hard pressed to find doctors who really look like that, and second, well, it's all about the drama. Phonier than a $3 bill.

romie · Jul 11, 2006

If you examine the actual tasks that the TV physicians do, you will find that it has almost nothing to do with reality. In every episode of Greys you see them performing tasks that most real docs don't have the time or interest to complete and are instead completed by nurses.

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Jul 11, 2006

I think that's another reason why medical dramas aren't my thing. I spend the whole time pointing out the crap they do wrong.

(And you ever notice that every soap opera and drama doc had the $14.99 Sprague scope around their neck?)

Guitar_Heroine · Jul 11, 2006

I think that's another reason why medical dramas aren't my thing. I spend the whole time pointing out the crap they do wrong.
(And you ever notice that every soap opera and drama doc had the $14.99 Sprague scope around their neck?)

I do the same thing and it drives my husband crazy! Also bothers me how most of the time when they're "using" their stethoscopes they're in backwards.

I also hate the attitude on the shows (that I've seen in real life too) that MD's can do nursing skills better than we can. I saw one try to put in a catheter awhile back and it was horrible!