ADVANCE Perspective: Nurses

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Move Over Nurse Jackie! September 23, 2009 4:42 PM by Luke Cowles: Just when you thought nurses were under-represented on TV, we now have no fewer than three primetime series about the lives of nurses. Since the "nursing shortage" in primetime has all but been eliminated, the question now is: Which series most accurately Read More...
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Nurse Jackie: Good Nurse or Bad? June 8, 2009 1:13 PM by Ainsley Maloney: Jackie Peyton is a pill-popping, cursing, adulterous ED nurse in the new half-hour dark comedy Nurse Jackie premièring tonight on Showtime at 10:30 ET/PT. She's also quite possibly one of the best portrayals of the nursing profession prime-time TV has Read More...
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Challenging Patients ... Very Challenging Patients August 28, 2008 7:29 PM by Adrianne O'Brien: By Adrianne O'Brien California RN May (just May) has a blog, aboutanurse.com , where she writes about finding humor on a med/surg telemetry unit. Earlier this week, she had a very, shall we say, challenging patient encounter. Here it is (courtesy aboutanurse.com): Read More...
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Realities of War: First Day October 10, 2007 9:38 AM by Erin James: We landed at Ramstein Air Force Base this morning. The flight over on the C-17 Globemaster was quite loud and cold. In my healthy, wide-eyed and excited state, I had a difficult time sleeping and relaxing. I can't imagine that experience under critical Read More...
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