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Reviews of television series featuring nurses

Annual fall TV previews since 2003
Current Health Television Shows Television Series No Longer in Production
Non-health Television Shows Documentaries / Reality Shows
Talk and Game Shows News Shows
Commercials Webisodes

Rating guide:
excellent = 4 stars; good = 3 stars; fair = 2 stars, poor = 1 star

Current Health Television Shows
(ordered by nursing rating)
Nursing rating
Call the Midwife (2012 - present) 3 1/2 stars
Virgin River (2019 - present) 3 1/2 stars
Chicago Med (2015 - present) 2 1/2 stars
Nurses (Toronto) (2020 - present) 2 1/2 stars
Bob Hearts Abishola (2019 - present) 2 stars
The Resident (2018 - present) 2 stars
Outlander (2014 - present) 2 stars
The Good Doctor (2017 - present) 1/2 star
Grey's Anatomy (2005 - present) 1/2 star
Black-ish (2015 - present) 1/2 star
Ratched (2019 - present) 1/2 star
New Amsterdam (2018 - present) 1/2 star
Transplant (2020 - present) pending review
Ordinary Joe (2021 - present) pending review
Good Sam (2021 - present) pending review
Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. (2021 - present) pending review
   

Health Shows No Longer in Production
(ordered by nursing rating)

Nursing
rating
Artistic
rating
Nurse Jackie (2009 - 2015) 3 1/2 stars 3 1/2 stars
Mercy (2009 - 2010) 3 1/2 stars 3 stars
HawthoRNe (2009 - 2011) 3 stars 3 1/2 stars
Mercy Street (2016 - 2017) 2 1/2 stars 2 1/2 stars
ER
Single episode reviews
(1994 - 2009) 2 stars 3 1/2 stars
One Day at a Time (2017 - 2020) 2 stars 2 1/2 stars
Red Band Society (2015) 2 stars 2 1/2 stars
The Glades (2010 - 2013) 1 star 2 stars
Combat Hospital (2011) 2 stars 2 stars
M*A*S*H (1972 - 1983) 1 1/2 stars 4 stars
Scrubs
Single episode reviews
(2001 - 2010) 1 1/2 stars 3 stars
Dr. Vegas (2004) 1 1/2 stars 2 stars
The Night Shift (2014 - 2017) 1 1/2 stars 2 stars
Strong Medicine
Single episode reviews
(2000 - 2006) 1 1/2 stars 1 1/2 stars
Miami Medical (2010) 1 1/2 stars 1 1/2 stars
Becker (1998 - 2004) 1 1/2 stars 1 1/2 stars
Hart of Dixie (2011 - 2015) 1 1/2 stars 1 1/2 stars
Code Black (2015 - 2018) 1 stars 2 1/2 stars
Royal Pains (2009 - 2016) 1 star 2 1/2 stars
Mental (2009) 1 star 2 1/2 stars
Medical Investigation (2004 - 2005) 1 star 2 1/2 stars
Private Practice (2007 - 2013) 1 star 2 1/2 stars
Dr. Ken (2015 - 2017)

1 star

2 stars
Three Rivers (2009 - 2010) 1 star
2 stars
Presidio Med (2002 - 2003) 1 star 2 stars
Scrubbing In (2013) 1 star 1 star
House (2004 - 2012) 1/2 star 3 stars
The Mindy Project (2012 - 2017) 1/2 star 3 stars
Gifted Man (2011 - 2012) 1/2 star 2 1/2 stars
Off the Map (2011) 1/2 star 2 stars
Monday Mornings (2013) 1 star 2 stars
Inconceivable (2005)
1/2 star
1 1/2 stars
MDs (2002 - 2003) 1/2 star 1 1/2 stars
Nightingales (1988 - 1989) 1/2 star 1  stars

 
Analyses of Other Television Shows (ordered by date)

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt January 25, 2019   
Parks & Recreation February 24, 2015   
Inside Amy Schumer May 20, 2014   
Sleepy Hollow November 17, 2014   
Glee October 3, 2013  |  October 4, 2009   
Downton Abbey Seasons 1 - 3   
Whitney Fall 2011   
NCIS: Los Angeles February 22, 2011
The Dr. Oz Show November 4, 2010   
Law and Order: SVU Special Victims Unit September 29, 2010  |  November 23, 2004
Rizzoli & Isles August 16, 2010   
The Late Show with David Letterman June 14, 2010   |   December 19, 2005 
Accidentally on Purpose       April 7, 2010
Today Show September 11, 2009  |   November 14, 2005  
Saving Grace       August 18, 2008
Desperate Housewives       April 13, 2008
Fox News Channel's Redeye April 1, 2008
Curb Your Enthusisam October 28, 2007  |  November 11, 2007
Dr. Steve-O October 21, 2007
Heroes    October 9, 2006
Sopranos March 26, 2006
Law & Order November 2, 2005
Cold Case September 25, 2005
Six Feet Under August 21, 2005   |  July 31, 2005
Everybody Loves Raymond May 16, 2005
8 Simple Rules May 11, 2004
Will & Grace Nov. 13, 2003   |   Nov. 20, 2003   |   April 22, 2004
7th Heaven November 24, 2003
Judging Amy   November 11, 2003
As the World Turns October 14, 2003
Passions September 12, 2003
Hack March 15, 2003

Also see :

Documentaries

Talk and Game Shows

News Shows

Commercials

Webisodes

Unreviewed Shows

Below are some shows we have heard about, but have not reviewed. For the puposes of identfying them they are below. Please let us know if you would like to write a guest review on any of them at info@truthaboutnursing. List additions courtesy of Charles Smith, CNA, Arizona. Thank you, Charles!

Angels in White AKA Itsumademo Shiroi Hane (2018). Rumi Kizaki is a young woman who failed to get into Japan's National University. So she enrolls into a nursing school as a last choice. As Rumi learns, interacts with classmates, and patients she realizes being a nurse maybe more than a backup plan for her.

The New Nurses AKA Sygeplejeskolen (2018-2019). Danish TV series about the first men to train and become nurses in 1950s Denmark.

China Beach (1988 – 1991) Award winning television series set at an evacuation hospital/R&R base based on the book Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam by former U.S. Army Nurse Lynda Van Devanter (first published in 1983).

The Crimson Field (2015). In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, a team of physicians, nurses, and volunteers work together to heal the men wounded in the trenches of WWI.

ANZAC Girls (2014). During World War I, true stories of Australian and New Zealand nurses serving at Gallipoli and the Western Front. Based on the book The Other Anzacs: Nurses At War 1914-1918 by Peter Reese (First Published in 2008).

Edith Cavell - Not a Martyr But a Nurse - Who Did What in WW 1? (2016) (TV)

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2015

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