TRAITOR: Get Out of Nursing!

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Specializes in Behavioral Health, Show Biz.

What happened to Professional RNs networking and supporting each other?

A RN veteran of the NURSE-ON-THE-SET specialty continues to misinform other RNs who are interested in pursuing this work that the requirements are 2-years of Critical Care or Intensive Care Unit experience with ACLS certification.

Not only is the info wrong, DEAD WRONG, this RN has been misinforming RNs for the past 15-years in order to discourage them and cut-out the competition.:o

TRAITOR!

SHAME ON YOU!

GET OUT OF NURSING IF YOU CAN'T SUPPORT US!

LIGHTS! CAMERA! ONE ICU and CCU NURSE OFF-THE-SET!

FYI...No offense or disrespect to our RN specialists in Intensive/Critical Care BUT the requirements to work as a NURSE-ON-THE-SET (aka nurse that works behind the scenes of film/television production sets) are an RN License, first aid kit/skills, CPR certification, stethescope and a portable BP machine. THAT'S THE DEAL!

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Specializes in Critical care, neuroscience, telemetry,.

Not sure I understand all of this, but thank you for the information.

Think I'll stay in ICU.............

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Again, unsure what this is all about. Could you elaborate?

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showbizrn means nurses who act as medical consultants in the television and film industry. There's a nurse who is a consultant for Nip/Tuck and Grey's Anatomy- in fact I thought she was the same person, but I'm not sure. Some of their job descriptions is to help the actors say medical words right, make sure their hold the instruments right, etc.

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If this has something to do with the Entertainment Industry than I am not surprised.

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Specializes in Behavioral Health, Show Biz.
again, unsure what this is all about. could you elaborate?

forgive me.

last night an rn colleague expressed an interest in pursuing work as a nurse-on-the-set. she stated that she requested information from a noted veteran rn who works as a nurse-on-the-set who misinformed her that she required 2-years of critical care/intensive care nursing experience.

fact: nurse-on-the-set requires general nursing experience, , first aid kit/skills, a stethescope and a bp machine.

the veteran nurse-on-the-set/rn (and other rns) have historically (for the past 10 -15 years) attempted to keep other rns from entering this specialty (to cut-out the competition) by misinforming the nurses of the requirements.

nurses who prevent other nurses from attaining employment opportunities are traitors and need to get out of nursing!

or maybe i'm just a tad too passionate about the issue...

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Darlin, it's showbuisness, plain and simple. Trolls seems to be attracted to the glamour and glitz....and being a troll is really the only way to survive and thrive in that world. Is it right? Heck no. But 'Hollywood' is not about what's right...it's about what makes money and builds status. I've had enough contact with that world to know that I sure as peaches don't want to live in it, no matter how well connected or rich I'd become. It can really kill your soul. I have met several 'famous' people who have it all and are the most miserable human beings on the planet, both emotionally and in the way the treat the rest of the world. So they can have it. I'm happy to be a 'normal' person.

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Specializes in critical care; community health; psych.

Sounds like an interesting way to make a living. Just another way to practice the art. But ???

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Specializes in Urgent Care, Family Medicine & OB/GYN.
showbizrn means nurses who act as medical consultants in the television and film industry. There's a nurse who is a consultant for Nip/Tuck and Grey's Anatomy- in fact I thought she was the same person, but I'm not sure. Some of their job descriptions is to help the actors say medical words right, make sure their hold the instruments right, etc.

Hmm...interesting. Never knew that.

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If she is the NURSE-ON-SET that tells all the stars to shock when a pt is asystole, she should be replaced.

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There was a neat story in Tending Lives by Echo Heron about a set nurse. Didn't sound like a fun type of work at all.

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showbizrn means nurses who act as medical consultants in the television and film industry. There's a nurse who is a consultant for Nip/Tuck and Grey's Anatomy- in fact I thought she was the same person, but I'm not sure. Some of their job descriptions is to help the actors say medical words right, make sure their hold the instruments right, etc.

I'm kind of confused. There are nurses on the set of most TV and film productions. There was a pretty good article in RN magazine about 10 years ago about working on a TV show. Basically took care of minor scrape etc. I think they are required if you have kids on the set. If you look at most US movies down there around catering there is usually an RN listed.

There is also an internet listing for Nurse-on-the-set which seems to be a listing for consultants about nursing in TV and movies. I am confused about which nurse-on-the-set the OP was talking about.

David Carpenter, PA-C

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