CBS’s Pure Genius saw the future of hospital care–and it was an exclusive boutique! The futuristic hospital drama, which ended in 2017, offered a hopeful vision of care in which superstar physicians…
CBS’s Pure Genius saw the future of hospital care–and it was an exclusive boutique! The futuristic hospital drama, which ended in 2017, offered a hopeful vision of care in which superstar physicians…
In alternative Kimmy Schmidt universe, the bunker is full of weak nursing students One of the final episodes of the sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which Netflix released in January 2019, presents an alternative world…
Call the Midwife’s fifth season has more great nursing The BBC show’s 2016 season again featured nurse midwives providing skilled and usually autonomous care to a range of poor patients in 1960s…
Grey’s Anatomy offers a good nursing portrayal…for 30 seconds The ABC hospital drama has aired 350 episodes telling the world that only surgeons matter and nurses are clinical clutter, as we show…
Grey’s Anatomy is a little bit sorry about that “skanky syph nurse” thing In the ABC show’s 14th season, Nurse Olivia returned with some verbal payback for surgeon Alex Karev. But the…
On Grey’s Anatomy, only a few handmaidens can hope to reach battle-axe status Nurses in the show’s 13th season were mostly meek servants taking physician orders, when they appeared at all. One…
More physician nursing in season 12 of Grey’s Anatomy The season was especially physician-centric, with surgeons doing everything that mattered in the hospital: triaging, diagnosing, treating, monitoring, intervening, advocating, educating. Nurses were…
Nurses remain silent and submissive on 15th straight season of Grey’s Anatomy The ABC drama continued to offer a vision of hospital care in which surgeons did everything that mattered, at one…
On ABC’s The Good Doctor, physicians do everything and nurses rarely appear The first season of the hit hospital drama from David Shore (House) features a surgical resident with autism and savant…
Castle Rock resurrects legendary battle-axe Annie Wilkes Hulu’s Stephen King series is adding Annie Wilkes, the murderous nurse who imprisoned and tortured her favorite novelist to make him keep her favorite character…
Fall 2019 TV preview: All your favorites, plus the return of Ratched Call the Midwife will still offer a strong portrayal of nursing. Chicago Med and The Resident will show some nursing…
NBC’s Heartbeat featured expert physicians, with a nurse as skilled handmaiden The 2016 NBC show Heartbeat focused on a female cardiac surgeon and other physicians. It did have a recurring nurse character,…
The Netflix show Morocco: Love in Times of War offers only a limited look at Spanish wartime nursing in the 1920s. But the Spanish series, released in the U.S. in 2018, does…
On the BBC drama’s fourth season, autonomous nurses provided expert midwifery and psychosocial care to a poor London community. They also advocated strongly for dispossessed populations.
On Grey’s Anatomy, surgeons are still gods and nurses are still low-skilled lackeys. But that didn’t stop one surgeon character from delivering a mind-boggling speech declaring that a key rule for successful surgeons is to listen to and respect nurses.
Lifetime docudrama Life Flight is a mixed message for nursing The March 2015 docudrama Life Flight: Trauma Center Houston has helpful information about what nurses do for patients, although it spends a…
“Call the Midwife” can be expected to offer a consistently good portrayal of nursing. “Chicago Med” and “The Resident” will show viewers some nursing skill, advocacy, and autonomy. But the physician-focused vision of top shows like “Grey’s Anatomy” and “The Good Doctor,” on which nurses are still handmaidens, will likely dominate another Hollywood season.
On The Mindy Project, nurses are comic relief for the comic relief The sitcom’s third season does offer a few fleeting images of its nurses as actual health professionals. But mostly, they…
Nurse Jackie says goodbye The Showtime comedy’s final seasons had flaws, occasionally suggesting that nurses report to physicians. But there was still a lot of expert care and creative advocacy from the…
Inside Amy Schumer mocks nurses In 2014 Inside Amy Schumer aired a segment called The Nurses (a parody of The Doctors) that viciously reinforced most major anti-nurse stereotypes, including the ignorant physician…