r/nursing • u/KeepAwayTheNargles RN - PICU 🍕 • Jan 06 '24

Nursing Hacks I’m Watching House

…and he just said, “Get me 40mg of furosemide so I can intubate!” I know medical shows are notoriously inaccurate but that one felt especially ludicrous. I died. The patient did not.

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u/markydsade RN - Pediatrics Jan 06 '24

I have never seen much of House. Do they even have nurses in his hospital? I never noticed any.

Long ago I stopped fretting about healthcare portrayals in fiction. I get more bothered by stereotyping of nurses as battle axes, angels of mercy, or whores. Those stereotypes were identified 40 years ago by Kalisch & Kalisch and they still get used today.

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u/ElfjeTinkerBell BSN, RN 🍕 Jan 06 '24

Do they even have nurses in his hospital? I never noticed any.

I don't think so! In Grey's Anatomy at least they're hanging around

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u/Pianowman CNA 🍕 Jan 06 '24

Grey's has the occasional nurse. But zero CNA's. Who needs nurses or CNA's when the doctors are there 24/7? 🤔

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u/ElfjeTinkerBell BSN, RN 🍕 Jan 06 '24

I never noticed! But to be fair, I've never worked with CNA's in hospitals either (if I understand what CNAs are at least). Our CNA's are in home health care, nursing homes, that kind of things. We have a level 'below' that in hospitals (and outside), they're allowed to distribute meals and do some basic patient care, but they're not allowed to help someone eat (cutting for someone with use of one arm doesn't count), do anything around meds/wounds etc. It's quite hard to explain I guess.

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u/flufflebuffle Nursing Student/ED Tech 🍕 Jan 07 '24

What kinda whack ass place do you work at? CNAs/PCTs at most places do basic patient care + feeds + super basic wound care + vital signs, and then there are ones with a slightly broader scope, like blood draws

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u/ElfjeTinkerBell BSN, RN 🍕 Jan 07 '24

The Netherlands. We have different laws and stuff