Nurses and TV: Why Do We Care?
Doctors don’t get all pissy when they are portrayed as immature adults with adolescent behavior problems (Scrubs), drug dependence (Cider House Rules), or happily married, goofy fathers (remember...
View ArticleReconsidering Cherry Ames on Veteran’s Day
photo: JParadisi (2009) This fall, I’m reading the first 4 books of the Cherry Ames series, by Helen Wells, for the first time. Cherry Ames, if you don’t know, is an 18 year-old student nurse,...
View ArticleBlue Eyeshadow, Nurse Jackie, and Patients Care
The evidence I am overly tired from a long stretch of shifts appears when I swipe a brush photo: jparadisi 2011 across my eyelid and it is the wrong color. Yeah, I wear makeup to work. I can’t do Nurse...
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