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I have seen TV shows related to healthcare and most of them don’t even have roles for nurses. Shows like house, Scrubs, Greys Anatomy, and general hospital are mostly about doctors. These prime time programs seem to neglect the nurse as a vital member of the healthcare team. Nurses make appearances but in the background roles; used as butt of jokes for the doctors, and the roles are primarily played by beautiful women. Then there is a show that is devoted to one nurse; Nurse Jackie. The nurse image displayed by this character is of negativity. Nurse Jackie is a nurse with her morality and ethics in question. She plays a nurse that is devoted to her patients but at the same time steals medicine from the pharmacy, forges legal documents,
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