Members are discussing various TV shows that depict nurses and healthcare professionals, with a focus on the accuracy and portrayal of the profession. Some members mention negative perceptions of nurses in media and society, while others share positive experiences and interactions with patients. The conversation also touches on the dynamics between nurses and doctors, as well as personal anecdotes related to nursing and healthcare settings.
I don't know if it's just me, but it seems like nurses get a bad wrap sometimes. For example, on Grey's Anatomy the nurses are looked down on completely, and one of the nurses even gave syphilis to a doctor. Also, the nurses on the show are generally grumpy and in one episode they go on strike and refuse to work.
I also feel like nurses have a reputation for sleeping around. My dad who is 85 and is a retired general surgeon says that back when he practiced, nurses were known to sleep around a lot. He said it's because nurses are around life and death so much that they get careless in the sexual promiscuity sense. I just think that all of these stereotypes portrayed through TV are really rude and not realistic.
I just started nursing school a little over a month ago and this has been bothering me. Does this bother anybody else? I just was curious to see different opinions on the subject.
I mentioned to a friend who was considering investing in rental properties that there is a whole market out there for renting furnished apartments to travel nurses and what good renters they generally would be - quiet, working professionals, often (but not always) without pets or kids.
I was surprised how hesitant he seemed.....then he told me that he would be nervous to rent to nurses because so many of them were drug addicts.
I didnt even know how to respond to that so I just said "yes but they are quiet, well mannered addicts."
Greys Anatomy is a medical documentary that depicts entirely factual events that take place in a magical hospital.
A hospital where attending surgeons accept their patients from the Ambulance, perform vitals, administer meds, X-ray their patients and perform surgery.
Greys Anatomy is a medical documentary that depicts entirely factual events that take place in a magical hospital.
A hospital where attending surgeons accept their patients from the Ambulance, perform vitals, administer meds, X-ray their patients and perform surgery.
All nurses do is say "yes doctor!"
Assuming I got paid the same, I'd work there. Float around in the background, shout, "Yes, doctor!" a couple times, and maybe hook up now and then? Sounds great. Of course, then there are the seven thousand catastrophes that have million-to-one odds but happen all the time at any TV hospital. So... I'd want good benefits.
Assuming I got paid the same, I'd work there. Float around in the background, shout, "Yes, doctor!" a couple times, and maybe hook up now and then? Sounds great. Of course, then there are the seven thousand catastrophes that have million-to-one odds but happen all the time at any TV hospital. So... I'd want good benefits.
Having to wear those hideous pale green scrubs when the Doctors get to wear pretty blue shades is enough to make me not want to work there.
Greys Anatomy is a medical documentary that depicts entirely factual events that take place in a magical hospital.
A hospital where attending surgeons accept their patients from the Ambulance, perform vitals, administer meds, X-ray their patients and perform surgery.
All nurses do is say "yes doctor!"
I'll take my 20% night shift differential for THAT job any day.
Assuming I got paid the same, I'd work there. Float around in the background, shout, "Yes, doctor!" a couple times, and maybe hook up now and then? Sounds great. Of course, then there are the seven thousand catastrophes that have million-to-one odds but happen all the time at any TV hospital. So... I'd want good benefits.
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I mentioned to a friend who was considering investing in rental properties that there is a whole market out there for renting furnished apartments to travel nurses and what good renters they generally would be - quiet, working professionals, often (but not always) without pets or kids.
I was surprised how hesitant he seemed.....then he told me that he would be nervous to rent to nurses because so many of them were drug addicts.
I didnt even know how to respond to that so I just said "yes but they are quiet, well mannered addicts."