Who is your Favorite TV or Movie nurse?

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Television does not provide the proper respect due the profession.

Over the years their have been a few actors that have done justice to the role of nurse.

Who is your favorite TV or movie Nurse?

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I'll go first.

My favorite is Haleh Adams as played by Yvette Freeman on ER.

Why? She has always been a strong supporter of union and has always backed her fellow nurses.

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Specializes in Telemetry, ICU, Resource Pool, Dialysis.

Margaret Houlihan!! 100% woman and 150% nurse!!

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Specializes in Inpatient Acute Rehab.

Margaret Houlihan from MASH.

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My absolute favorite TV nurse has got to be Laverne on Empty Nest.

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Not my favorite nurse but thought I'd mention it. I rented "The Student Nurses" from NetFlix last week. It said it was about 4 senior nursing students about to graduate, and I thought how cute, I'm a senior about to graduate. Well, it was from 1976 and had more soft core Media undertones then necessary hahahahahah guess I should have realized that.....I don't recommend it. (Unless of course you're into that kind of thing!) My Boyfriend couldn't stop laughing and wanted to know what on earth I had rented! (He suggested I pick the movies from now on!) hahahaha

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

I forget her name, but the nurse from the old show China Beach.

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I liked Carol Hathaway from ER (in the beginning of the series, before she went to med school and hooked up with Doug Ross)

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Specializes in NICU.

I like Carla on Scrubs. There was one episode where her doctor boyfriend talked about how great it would be for her to go to nurse practitioner school, assuming it was every nurse's dream. Her response? She was very happy being "just a nurse" thank you very much. She basically said that she liked her job and was good at it, so why would she want to change things? For money or power? She stressed that there is more to life than that.

It was funny, the age-old phrase "just a nurse" kept coming up over and over again, and I KNEW that there had to be an RN on their consulting staff!

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Specializes in Telemetry, ICU, Resource Pool, Dialysis.
I forget her name, but the nurse from the old show China Beach.

Yeah, I totally forgot about that show!! I used to love watching it. I know who you mean, she was great.

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Specializes in Public Health, DEI.

Can we give our top 5? Margaret Houlihan, Dana Delany's China Beach character (also can't remember her name), and 3 from ER- Abby, Carol and Sam.

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Specializes in Public Health, DEI.
I forget her name, but the nurse from the old show China Beach.

Colleen McMurphy. I had to go look it up. It was bugging me, b/c I kept thinking Maggie O'Connell which was the name of a character on Northern Exposure who actually looks a bit like Dana Delany.

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