Nurses
Factual Entertainment
Top 10
7x 1/2 hr
From the pace and adrenaline of the emergency teams to the intensive one-on-one nursing in Critical Care, Nurses engages the viewer with real life scenarios, revealing why nurses follow such a demanding vocation. Against the canvas of hospital drama they tell their compelling stories – directly to camera, filling the episodes with their everyday triumphs and tragedies.
Episode Overview
Episode 1
A suicidal man keeps Andy on his toes. In critical care Lisa maintains a constant vigil by the bedside of a woman who's lost too much blood in theatre. And there's chaos in the observation room, when a young man high on P goes on the rampage.
Episode 2Two boys choppered into emergency following a motorcycle head-on, get a rude awakening as the trauma team set to work. Critical care nurse Lisa suctions a man who's cheated death. And in Triage, Nadine cops abuse from a man tired of waiting.
Episode 3Within hours of her discharging her, Andy treats an alcoholic with another stomach full of booze and pills. In RESUS there's incoming from a Rave with guys high on G, and bottles of herbal E. And the emergency team move into overdrive when it's realised a woman with suspected meningitis may have exposed her baby.
Episode 4Julia battles to save a man crushed by his own tractor. A pub drunk with a split head worries he's missing valuable drinking time. And Recovery, Ginene reveals the less glamorous side of nursing.
Episode 5Tiki restores a woman's faith to live, while a high speed motorcycle accident has the trauma team performing emergency surgery. And in critical care Lisa tends to David, who lost his leg in a tractor accident
Episode 6A trauma team assemble in RESUS to save the life of a car crash victim admitted with impossible injuries. Julia pulls no punches with a man who's been sleeping on the streets. And Tiki's new patient has rolled at speed . out of a supermarket trolley.
Episode 7Covered in blood and in need of 14 stitches, a drunk skateboarder finds ED, a sobering experience. Andy tries to restore order when an hysterical girl is admitted having just tried to hang herself. And fresh out of the ambulance, a man whose artificial leg came off second best.
