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I watched an episode of Scrubs, and it was quite upsetting. In it the Intern makes the nurse feel lowly for being a nurse and even raves at her "I will be the doctor and you just be the nurse" and throughout she was portrayed as just standing around waiting for an order, and attempting to repeatedly prove her intelligence. One bizzare comment that was a little disturbing, the doctor asks the nurse if she had learned of photography in college and she responds by telling her sob story about not going to college. So where her degree came from is anybody's guess.
I think messages like these only perpetuate the public's misconception of what it is a nurse is and does exactly. So tell me, what do we do, what sets us apart from the MD, what constitutes a nurse?
As an experienced ICU nurse I have saved many Dr's Asses, I for one am tired of teaching residents, each month it is a new flavor if you know what I mean, they seem to come less prepared, some don't even know basic pharmacology. You can't even get a tylenol order without them looking up in their palm pilot how to order it. Oh well, I guess that is how they learn but I am tired of them not knowing V Tach from artifact and ordering the wrong med during a code. Thank god for us nurses!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I happened to catch a rerun of China Beach and was glad I did...it was a good series ....and portrayed nurses more realistically than most shows, IMO.
My poor dear Mother never DID get over her disappointment that I did not have a torrid affair and/or marry a doc. Too many General Hospital episodes I'm sure. :roll
In reponse to prn nurse's comment
Coming from a bsn education I feel and was taught that nurses are much more than "physicians assisants" I am insulted by your comment. Maybe that is how nurses were thought of 40 years ago but not in this day and age. I do not just "carry out physicians orders". Many a times I have found absurd orders written that I question. Nurses now do more than they ever had, times have changed and so has nursing
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JennyP, I can identify, and so can my family. I think my psychosis about television medical shows started back when my mother watched "General Hospital" and I discovered that I was supposed to be having torrid intimate relationships with professional peers in the laundry room during my "free time".
Somehow I haven't had the "free time" to do that yet:p ! Can't think why...