Home for Christmas
Coffee Grounds: A nursing in the media podcast
If you'd like a Christmasy show to binge for the holidays, we recommend "Home for Christmas." It is a Norwegian show on Netflix that includes a very good nursing portrayal, though the clinical scenes are not the main focus of the show. It is essentially a well-done Christmas romcom. As the third season begins, the main character Johanne interviews for and gets an interim ward manager job, which seems to mean supervising about 10 hospital nurses. Despite resistance from a nurse who wanted the manager job himself, she leads the rest of the staff with her positive, caring spirit and mastery of...
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Nurses call for an end to “sexy nurse” costumes
Coffee Grounds: A nursing in the media podcast
As we approach Halloween, we discuss the naughty nurse and killer zombie nurse outfits and stereotypes. We also discuss an article in the Guardian and calls by the Spanish Nursing Council for an end to the naughty and killer / zombie nurse costumes that appear at Halloween. We help listeners explore what can be done about it.
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2024 Fall Television Preview: Nursing in the Media
Coffee Grounds: A nursing in the media podcast
New health-related shows are here, and some have nurse characters. The central character on the NBC mockumentary St. Denis Medical seems to be a senior nurse. And ABC’s Doctor Odyssey, set on a cruise ship, actually has two nurse characters. But other new shows seem to fit the physician-centric model of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, especially Fox’s Doc and NBC’s Brilliant Minds. In any case, good portrayals of nursing will return, on the long-running Call the Midwife (BBC/PBS) and Virgin River (Netflix). October 2024 – This is a transition year for health-related shows on prime time U.S....
info_outlineIf you'd like a Christmasy show to binge for the holidays, we recommend "Home for Christmas." It is a Norwegian show on Netflix that includes a very good nursing portrayal, though the clinical scenes are not the main focus of the show. It is essentially a well-done Christmas romcom. As the third season begins, the main character Johanne interviews for and gets an interim ward manager job, which seems to mean supervising about 10 hospital nurses.
Despite resistance from a nurse who wanted the manager job himself, she leads the rest of the staff with her positive, caring spirit and mastery of patient advocacy and psychosocial care.
In particular, over the course of the season, she works to persuade a very resistant patient with cardiac sarcoidosis to get needed tests and be open to his family’s support, going to great lengths to mend a broken family despite resistance from all around her.
Some would say she was crossing a line. But dedicated patient advocates will recognize the quicksand and pushback nurses get from managers, colleagues, patients, and families when they go above and beyond to really meet all the patient's needs. Johanne, not unlike Nurse Jackie, will step outside the system to help a patient or colleague, then charm her way back in.
She and her nurses operate with real autonomy – physicians exist and are mentioned as being consulted, but the nurses seem to basically operate without them.
Nurses care for patients on their own. We recommend watching the show in Norwegian with English subtitles as we found the dubbed version didn't do justice to the version delivered by the original actors. So check out "Home for Christmas" on Netflix for the holidays and let us know what you think.