Storyline Edit. Life is full of little pricks. Did you know Edit. I gotta go. User reviews 72 Review. Top review. An Instant Hit! Earthy, gritty, with hard hitting humor and heartbreaking drama. Sure, it may be derivative but it's seriously well done, and realistic, too.
I loved the first episode and they had me five minutes in. That's pretty amazing. I already feel like I've known Nurse Jackie for years, I understand her, I feel what she feels, and I know why she feels that way. You guys did that with one episode. I'm impressed. Even the supporting characters seem real, as well as the patients, and nothing comes across as rushed or hurried.
The director is taking his time, getting it right. I'm sure this will be an instant hit. FAQ 1. What is Nurse Jackie's drug of choice? Details Edit. Release date June 8, United States. United States. Untitled Edie Falco Project. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 27 minutes. O'Hara Eve Best , Jackie's former best friend and the first person to lose faith in her, had returned to New York to attend the confirmation ceremony for Jackie's daughter but made the sad realization that Jackie was using again.
Jackie's deceit also doomed her relationships with her husband Kevin Dominic Fumusa and her boss Gloria Akalitus Anna Deveare Smith , who viewers recently learned is the mother of an addict. But her new fiancee Eddie Paul Schulze ended up paying a higher price than anyone for being Jackie's friend. The pharmacist-turned-pharmaceutical sales rep was facing a year in jail for selling his supply of pain-medication samples to a corrupt doctor, partially because he refused to implicate Jackie's role in arranging the deal in order to pay her lawyer.
Eddie's thought process is, 'I love this woman and I'll do anything for her. During their final conversation, "there's a flicker in her eye that indicates she realizes how much this guy loves her. And at the same time, I believe there's a subtle recognition that as long as he's in her life, she's never get well because he'll always enable her.
At the end, he says, "Jackie was an addict first, a nurse second, and — sadly — a mother third, a friend fourth, a wife fifth and a lover sixth. Another Martin, who was a labour and delivery nurse, has equal criticism for Mercy's Veronica Callahan, a nurse recently returned from Iraq suffering post-traumatic stress disorder who sleeps with a doctor at her hospital. But she does like Hawthorne 's title character, Christina Hawthorne, the chief nursing officer at a hospital in Richmond, Va. The new shows are big departures from other medical dramas, such as Grey's Anatomy and House , which tend to ignore nurses.
She says the shows do a disservice to the profession, rather than help the public understand the challenges a nurse faces every day at work. Martin and her daughter watch Nurse Jackie and have analyzed its pros and cons. Others applaud Nurse Jackie , Mercy and Hawthorne for finally putting the focus on nurses and dealing with issues such as doctor and patient harassment.
Suzanne Gordon, an author and a nursing professor at the University of Maryland, recently interviewed the cast of Nurse Jackie for The Progressive magazine. She says nurses need to take the show with a grain of salt and realize the show is a gift to nursing.
Last year, Gordon assigned her students to watch the show as homework. I don't think it hurts the image of nurses at all; I think it helps. Some local front-line nurses find the new slate of shows refreshing, even if they do make them cringe now and then. There haven't been too many strong ones and yet nurses are always on the list of most-trusted professionals.
Although some nurses feel Nurse Jackie is depicting the reality of a nurse's day, it ignores bigger issues such as staff shortages, Tsang-Sit says. I understand it's drama, but I don't think it's advocates strongly for nurses. Poonam Sharma is a Humber College nursing student who loves the show, even though she acknowledges the Jackie character has many flaws.
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