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RN Claire from Outlander covered in blood and holding a bottleMovie & TV NursesThe Time-Traveling Adventures of “Outlander”The nurse heroine is transported from World War II to 1743 (and back again)Other than the occasional period piece, TV shows featuring nurse characters tend to be set firmly in the here and now. Not so with “Outlander,” the popular STARZ series based on the...
RN Hathaway standing next to phone with scrubs on and stethoscope around her neckMovie & TV NursesLife in the “ER”Revisiting the long-running medical dramaI used to think that binge-watching television was for slackers who had nothing better to do with their time. Two years of social isolation, however, has led me to discover the joy of...
Movie & TV NursesRevisiting the TV Show “Scrubs”This popular medical sitcom still delivers more than just laughsI have to admit that when “Scrubs” originally aired on network television (2001–2010), I never once watched it. I was so self-righteous about the way nurses were portrayed in the media...
Nurse Jackie walking towards camera wearing scrubs and stethoscope with pills surrounding herMovie & TV NursesLooking Back at “Nurse Jackie”A former nurse addict and current recovery coach takes a fresh look at the controversial 2009–2015 Showtime series­“Nurse Jackie,” a medical comedy-drama about a drug-addicted nurse in the chaotic thrum of a New York City emergency department, premiered on Showtime in June 2009. For seven...
On the left is the movie poster for Love And War and on the right is a photo of the female lead dressed in black looking out over a balconyMovie & TV Nurses“In Love and War” Movie ReviewA WWI biopic about American nurse Agnes Von Kurowsky and a young Ernest HemingwayIn Love and War is a 1996 film based on the real-life romance between a young Ernest Hemingway and Agnes Von Kurowsky, the nurse who treated him after he was wounded during the First World...

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Panic in the Streets movie poster with a nurse in white scrubs talking to Clinton Reed on the rightMovie & TV Nurses“Panic in the Streets” Movie ReviewA deadly plague is the real villain of this 1950 noir thrillerI usually only review books for Working Nurse, but the editors recently suggested I review Panic in the Streets, a classic film noir directed by Elia Kazan, released by 20th Century Fox in...
On the left is Jennifer Worth in a nurse's uniform and hat looking up, on the right is a nurse holding a baby in Call the MidwifeMovie & TV NursesJennifer Worth (1935-2011) and “Call the Midwife”Her experience in ‘50s and ‘60s London became a bestselling memoir and popular BBC TV seriesA throwaway line in a 1998 article in the Midwives Journal, suggesting that someone ought to do for midwives what James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small had done for veterinarians,...