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Outlander season and episode reviews
 

Nursing rating

2 stars

From our 2017 Fall TV preview

Claire from OutlanderOutlander (Starz) is based on a series of popular books about British World War II combat nurse Claire Randall, who time travels between the 20th century and 18th century Scotland, where she marries a handsome Scottish rebel and has adventures across Europe. In the first two seasons, Claire displayed some impressive health skills, proving herself to be smart and tough. In the long first season she healed wounds, treated asthma, mastered herbal remedies, comforted the dying, diagnosed and treated mysterious ailments using her advanced knowledge from the future. The ratio of health care to romance and intrigue dropped off as the show went on, but the second season also included some care. Claire diagnosed and acted to limit a smallpox outbreak and tried to manage battle wounds. She also had to contend with PTSD from her years in World War II. But not enough was made of her nursing background – she was seen more as a “healer”— for nursing to benefit too much from her health exploits. And the early episodes of the third season will show her become a physician back in the 20th Century. more...

From our 2016 Fall TV preview

Claire from OutlanderOutlander (Starz) is based on a series of popular books about British World War II combat nurse Claire Randall, who time travels between the 20th Century and 18th-century Scotland, where she marries a handsome Scottish rebel and has adventures across Europe. The series finished airing its second season in July 2016 and will return in 2017. Claire has regularly displayed some impressive health skills, and although they have not played too great a role in the show overall, Claire is smart and tough. In the long first season she was called upon to heal wounds, treat asthma, master herbal remedies, comfort the dying, diagnose mysterious ailments using her advanced knowledge from the future, and even reverse a life-threatening poisoning with a “decoction of belladonna.” The second season also included some health care from Claire; for instance, she diagnosed and acted to limit a smallpox outbreak and, as always, tried to manage battle wounds. She also had to contend with her own PTSD from the years she spent as a combat nurse during World War II. But not enough is made of her nursing background in particular — in the 18th century she is really seen more as a “healer” — for nursing to benefit too much from her occasional health exploits. And that will likely be especially so in future seasons, since by the end of the second season she had spent 20 years back in the 20th Century and become a physician. more...