Schelling still graces the operating theater for the occasional open heart surgery, so it was a miracle that she found time to talk to Technically Speaking about the ways the nursing profession is represented on the screen. Here's the big take away: That cliché where the doctor screams, "Get me a (important medical term here), STAT!" doesn't happen in the real world. Who knew?
What does Hollywood get right about the nursing profession?
What they do seem to portray really well is that nurses are professionals, that they know what they're doing, that they're the patients' advocates. They show that very well.
And what do they get wrong?
Sometimes, it's the doctor-nurse relationship. Sometimes, on TV, it's common that doctors yell, "Get me this, now!" and nurses say, "Yes doctor!" That is a miscommunication to the world at large because we're more collaborative with our physicians. We work as a team. It's not necessarily them saying, "Do this" and we do that. We have conversations about things. We don't have people yell at us, and we run away and go get something. I think that's a common TV trick and that's bothersome.
Technically Speaking - Nurse Susie
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