Who is your Favorite TV or Movie nurse?

MultipurposeRN · May 23, 2005

I know it's not a TV nurse, but I liked Ben Stiller's character in Meet the Parents. A guy who was a nurse, not a doc wannabe..loved it. Though I did think the movie made too much of the 'male nurse' thing. It's not like they're as much of a rarity anymore.

MultipurposeRN · May 23, 2005

Forgot to mention a British movie called "Champions", don't know when it was made. It had John Hurt and Kirstie Alley in it. It was a bio of Bob Champion and a steeplechase horse, Aldaniti. Bob had cancer and the gals that played his nurses were good portrayals..warm, compassionate, non-Bimbo types.

SarasotaRN2b · May 23, 2005

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

She never went to med school, she was considering it and had to be tutored for chemistry, but she decided that nursing was where she should be. I like her and Abby when she was a nurse. I have to agree though that Haleh is a great one as well.

Kris

Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN · May 23, 2005

Hee hee, how about Nurse Mildred Ratched from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"?

She's my favorite villian nurse. She's just soooooo evil.

The nurse in the movie "Wit" is my favorite hero nurse.

SarasotaRN2b · May 23, 2005

Actually, I do have to agree with many of the posts that mentioned Major Hoolihan from M*A*S*H. She was great.

Question though: there was mention about the wardrobe in MASH and how it changed to the 70s...how can that be if they were uniform? Of course, I love Klinger's earlier outfits...remember when he was Scarlett O'Hara or flying with his pink fluffy slippers? That was a hoot!

Kris

letina · May 23, 2005

I like Margaret in 'Becker'. Love the way she bosses the Doc around :chuckle

StreamTeamLPN · May 23, 2005

Margaret was awesome! As a child, I loved "Julia". She was one of the reasons I wanted to be nurse. I also loved Julie on Emergency!

I like Margaret in 'Becker'. Love the way she bosses the Doc around :chuckle

Jen2 · May 23, 2005

I loved Carol on ER. I have to laugh about Elizabeth on General Hospital though because I remember I was in the middle on a horrible Med/surge 11 semester and I was watching GH one day and Elizabeth woke up one day and said "I think I'll go to nursing school." Needless to say she graduated before I did. That killed me.

How about the Real Nurse on the Bachelor. She is actually a L&D nurse (I think), and talked about how much she loved her job and displayed a very strong character on the show.

Worthy · May 23, 2005

Well, the top two reasons I'm in nursing school now are watching Margaret Houlihan on M*A*S*H, and Julie London's character - Dixie McCall - on Emergency!.

Margaret just cared for her patients so much, and Dixie looked so cute in that uniform. Always had that little hat just so perfectly placed on her head, hair pinned neatly back, big long fake eyelashes bobbing as she answered the radio "come in, station 51". Not a hair out of place, always had time to have a cup of coffee with those hunky paramedics...actually, come to think of it, I rarely saw her even touching patients. I SOOOO wanted to be HER!

For a dose of reality, I really like the nurses of ER, particularly Carol Hathaway. She did indeed abandon her idea of Med school because she liked being a nurse. I used to like Abby but I think the storyline of her becoming a doc just reinforced the idea that nurses are just "doctor wannabes" who aren't smart enough to do it. LOVED the episode of scrubs where Carla decides she wants to remain "just a nurse".

But Dixie, she was it!

Peachy720 · May 24, 2005

This thread forced me to do something I've wanted to do for awhile--borrow my dad's copy of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

VERY glad I did.

Nurse Mildred Ratched is indeed evil. But I LOVED Scatman Crothers' orderly role..he had some of the best lines of the movie! :chuckle

Other than that, I'll go with Haleh from ER...and Carol Hathaway in her early days. One of my favorite episodes was the one that focused on her day off..Remember the one with Ewan McGregor?

dazedandconfused · May 24, 2005

I have to say Kelly and Hotlips from MASH, and Colleen McMurphy from China Beach. I loved that show. :)

jenpstudentrn · May 24, 2005

Yay! Colleen McMurphy from China Beach and the excellent Jeffery Wright (Nurse Norman "Belize" Arriaga) and Emma Thompson (Nurse Emily) from the HBO miniseries Angels in America.