Comments | slashfairy: semi-coherent rant about nursing/medical shows

slashfairy

semi-coherent rant about nursing/medical shows

Nov 01, 2009 18:23

ok, nursing/medical shows? get your shit together. it doesn't take that much longer to do things right- trust me, i've been an RN for thirty years. it really doesn't take any time at all to do it right ( Read more... )

tv, education, ethics, nursing

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slashfairy November 2 2009, 03:08:39 UTC

i can't speak to the diagnostic stuff on House but the way the doctors misperform nursing care is -well, it'd be funny if it weren't so sad ( ... )

chaosmanor November 2 2009, 03:20:32 UTC

TV shows I can't watch without wanting to throw things at the screen...

slashfairy November 2 2009, 03:31:26 UTC

i know. i know, which is why i don't usually. i couldn't even give nurse jackie or hawthoRNe the time of day- *sigh* but i thought i'd just give mercy and three rivers a shot and see if there was any hope... but no...

you know, i'd be terrified to go to hospital if i thought this is how it worked.

tularia November 2 2009, 03:40:01 UTC

I hear ya!

slashfairy November 2 2009, 03:44:38 UTC

it's just so fucking frustrating. i mean, i'd check their shit for FREE if they'd just listen to me- the simple simple simple things... handwashing. get the mask on straight. yes, people DO notice.

feelforfaith November 3 2009, 23:15:20 UTC

I was an ER fan for many years, and I remember reading somewhere that they always had a doctor as a consultant on the set to avoid stuff like what you are describing.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss :). My husband sometimes goes off on these rants about how they got this totally wrong, or how ridiculous something was when it comes to computers and IT stuff.

slashfairy November 3 2009, 23:26:27 UTC

They did, and they got the medical stuff pretty much right. the nursing, not so much- there's a tendency to think 'hospital=doctors' which- yeah, for the diagnoses and the orders and surgery, sure- but not the hour to hour care, not the diagnostic TESTS, or the pharmacy stuff, or any of the bedside hands-on care- that's all Not-Doctor people of various ranks and various levels of education, and that pretty much gets missed out. But, yeah, ER did better than most. And, of course, it's really a soap opera/ensemble cast show, that happens to be set in a medical world- it's just they did the medical world awfully well.

OMG i BET! he must have to grit his teeth and just put on the *ignore* blinkers a LOT. poor man! hell, even i can tell sometimes things are just.not.like.that!