Top Ten Nurses on TV Show

nurses-tvYou know there´s a lot of shows about doctors, and there have always been a lot. And very few focusing on nurses, or giving nurses their fair share on doctors shows. Often nurses are the one night stand for a resident doctor and things like that.
Well, folks at Nurse Tips did an excellent piece about 10 Great TV Series about nursing, that include those shows led by Nurses, or giving nurses enough playing time as to be considered part of the leading cast.
Although there are a few inaccuracies (as stating ER as a current show), the list is very much spot on, although I´d make Nurse Jackie climb a little swapping her position with Jada Pinkett Smith´s Hawthorne.

Top Ten Nurses on TV Shows

1- ER:

ER has generally portrayed nurses as competent, caring health workers and avoided the most obvious stereotypes

2- Nurse Jackie:

What´s not to love about the pill-popping super nurse who also is a wife, mother and ex-lover to the hospital pharmacist.

3- Janet Dean, Registered Nurse:

This series featured vignettes about the nursing profession at the end of each of the series’ 39 episodes.

4- M*A*S*H*:

Chief Nurse Major Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit) offered authority, nursing skills, and commitment to the patients’ well being, and as the show went on she grew increasingly sympathetic.

5- Nurse:

The dramatic story of Mary Benjamin (Michael Learned), a middle-aged widow who attempts to begin a new life by resuming her career as a head nurse at Grant Memorial Hospital.

6- Nurses:

Revising the nursing from a sitcom perspective.

7- Hawthorne:

This show follow  Christina Hawthorne, a Chief Nursing Officer ready for battle on the front lines of a war against declining patient services and hospital budget cuts.

8- Nurse TV:

This is the first Web-based reality show that aims to recruit more nurses to address the nursing shortage. NTV provides nurses, healthcare professionals and consumers with an in-depth look at the real-life medical drama of a profession where every second counts.

9- RAN: Remote Area Nurse:

This Australian show followed the life of Helen Tremain (Susie Porter), the Remote Area Nurse, charged with providing medical services to the remote Torres Strait Islanders community.

10- The District Nurse:

Megan Roberts, the titular district nurse fighting to improve living conditions for the people living in a poverty-stricken mining town, Pencwm, in South Wales during the late 1920s.

What do you think about these Nurses on TV? let me know in the comments section. Also, remember to follow me on Twitter for more TV Lists.

Complete Recap and Spoilers of E.R. Series Finale and In The End – How did ER End?

ER is one of the longest running shows of TV. And yesterday that run came to an end, as Series Finale of ER aired on NBC with a great two hour special episode.

If you want to know How did ER end, here´s the place for you. Filled with spoilers and emotional moments of Series Finale ER.

Complete Recap and Spoilers of E.R. Series Finale and In The End – How did ER End?

4 a.m. Monday, a pouring rain.

Dr. Gates comes to work. And ambulance pulls up. It brings Stacy, a 17-year-old female found passed out after a drinking game at a party.

Lydia wakes up Dr. Morris to deal with an older woman who the paramedics found on the street. She fell. She’s in her nightgown.

Jerry tells Gates that the girls’ friends want to check on her. With a blood alcohol of .420, this isn’t the best time.

(The credits show everybody who appears later, including Noah Wyle, Eriq LaSalle and Laura Innes in all their old clips. Aw.)

7 a.m.

Brenner arrives. It’s still pouring.

He greets the med students as one heads off to deal with PV (projectile vomiting). Jerry hands things off to Frank behind the desk.

Lydia heads home.

Morris’ elderly patient wakes up. She says her name is Beverly, but she doesn’t know her last name. Her wrist is broken.

Gates has done all he can for the drunk teen. Now they wait.

He thinks it’s time for her friends to see the shape she’s in.

About 10 teenage girls come in the ER to see Stacy. She’s in a coma. Her parents aren’t there, but the parents who hosted the party are.

The girls were drinking vodka and Kool-aid, playing “I never.” Stacy won.

They got the vodka from the parents, who say they’d rather the kids drink at home.

Gates tells someone to call the cops.

Morris briefs the med students on the board of patients, including a hallucinating trombone player.

Sanchez, Julia and Chaz are given their assignments.

Brenner picks Chaz to show around a group of prospective med students, so he doesn’t have to.

Morris is halfway out the door with a donut when Beverly’s daughter shows up. Morris has to wait for a really long monologue from the daughter about how worried she was to tell her her mom will be fine.

He tries to leave again. Sanchez hounds him on the way out, but he makes it back outside and into the rain.

The police arrive to talk to Gates about the girl with alcohol poisoning. The dad yells at Gates and comes after him. The cops break it up.

More rain.

A construction worker comes in with a rebar through is femoral artery.

A storm watch plays on TV.

Stacys parents arrive. Gates goes to talk to them.

Carter shows Kerry Weaver and Susan Lewis around the shiny new Carter Center, a gorgeous private hospital with marble in the foyer. It’s for homeless and poor people.

He’ll do the fundraising.

Susan knew he was rich, but not this rich.

He says it’s ill-begotten gains put to good use. He spent most of it.

Med student Julia meets with an old man named Ghandi (his mom was a Mahatma fan). He’s having trouble breathing. He tells Brenner he has AIDS.

Sanchez looks at a young Hispanic boy’s x-ray. He explains to his grandmother in Spanish that they’re not going to take out her rosary that he swallowed. They’ll wait. The word “caca” is used.

Brenner helps Julia with the old man, who has fluid in his lungs. Julia drains it.

They move Stacy out of the trauma room.

Gates gets ready to go home. Another one of Stacy’s friends is in the waiting room. He tells her they don’t know when or if she’s going to regain consciousness.

The friend wasn’t at the party, but Stacy was texting her. She said she was throwing up. The friend wishes she’d called someone.

Chaz shows the prospective med students around, including past a puking guy in the waiting room. A young woman in the group, who looks familiar, takes it all in.

He explains how the ER works.

He takes them in to see Brenner giving chest compressions to a morbidly obese man who’s coding. Brenner kicks them out.

Julia has bad news for Ghandi. He doesn’t have pneumonia. He got the AIDS diagnosis in 1987. She says it’s great he’s been able to fight it off this long. She chokes up telling him he has cancer

Carter arrives.

A pregnant woman who was in a car accident is brought in.

Brenner asks a watching Carter if he’d care to pitch in. The woman writhes and screams then pushes. The baby cries and her daughter is born.

One down, one to go. Carter beams at the baby.

Her husband arrives. Frank IDs him as “the wet anxious guy.”

One of the prospective med students says hi to Frank. He doesn’t remember her. It’s Mark Greene’s daughter, Rachel.

The pregnant mom starts to push out the second kiddo, but it gets complicated.

Another girl comes out, but she’s not crying yet. They’re trying to suction out her lungs. The mom starts bleeding a lot.

And then her uterus comes out of her body, which is definitely not a good thing.

4 p.m.

Gates tries to ignore the beep of a tow truck outside his loft, but he’s up.

Back in the trauma room, the mom is not doing well at all. Julia succeeds in pushing the woman’s uterus back in. They have to take her into surgery.

She’s wheeled out and the dad is left looking at bloody foot and cart prints on the floor.

Gates picks his daughter Sara up at school. He asks her if she ever played “I never” and then how many drinks she thinks it’d take to be drunk enough to die.

At her weight, he says, 6 drinks.

He programs his number into her phone under “help,” saying he’ll come, no questions asked.

The rain finally stopped. The twins are fine and mom is in surgery. Her mother-in-law arrives with the couple’s three boys.

Chaz tells Carter that Rachel was there. He goes to find her.

She’s 22 and doing her undergrad at Duke. Elizabeth works there. He invites them to the opening that night.

Julia’s old guy has two months to live.

Gates helps Sam’s son Alex paint a car.

Julia talks to Ghandi. His friend Jerry is there. He turns down chemo. So many of his friends already died. He’s had his time. He went sky diving last year in Hawaii.

He tells Julia he just doesn’t want dying to hurt. They can help with that.

7 p.m.

Brennan reviews the board. Hallucinating trombone guy is still there.

Gates is back. His coma girl is still there.

Frank turns things back over to Jerry, gloating that all his paperwork is done.

Carter talks to Dr. Banfield about Rachel Greene’s chances to get a spot there. She says Rachel made the first cut.

Brenner talks to Neela via web cam. She’s enjoying teaching.

Carter follows Brenner up to surgery to check on the twins’ mom. The twins are doing OK.

Julia brings the three boys to meet their new baby sisters.

Mr. Manning and his wife come back in via ambulance. She has sepsis.

Gates goes to see them.

Carter welcomes people to his center. They’ll provide outpatient care to the homeless, people with HIV/AIDS and the under-privileged. Benton is in the audience.

It’s named the Joshua Carter Center for his son, who died.

Carter looks up to see his wife in the back of the room.

He finishes his speech and goes to talk to her. He’s surprised she’s there. They only get a second before he’s dragged away by someone.

Gates gently tells Mr. Manning that his wife has a DNR and she doesn’t want them to intervene. She’d only live a week or two on machines if they did anything. It’s time to talk about how to make her comfortable.

Julia goes to check on the twins’ mom. The doctor tells her bluntly that she coded and they worked on her for an hour, but she died.

Downstairs, the whole ER sings Happy Birthday to Sam.

Alex arrives with her present, which he drove there.

Gates follows them out. Alex gives her the keys. Gates and Alex fixed it up together.

It’s a cherry red Ford Mustang. It purrs. In the doctor’s lounge, Julia tells Brenner she’s not sure if she can do this. She’s bothered that she can’t help everyone.

10 p.m. Two ambulances come in, bearing a bride and her mother-in-law. The bride has a broken arm and the mother-in-law has a gash to the forehead.

At Carter’s center, Benton, Weaver and Susan bust on Carter for all the crazy mistakes he made as a young doctor. They plan to meet up later for drinks.

Carter finally gets a moment with his wife.

She declines drinks. She’s flying out tomorrow night. It’s hard for her to be there.

He asks her to lunch, but she chokes up thinking about their son. He’d be almost 6 years old.

Gates checks on an old man with penile pain. He’s very sexually active at the nursing home. Gates tells him he fractured it. The man calls it “Mr. Fred.”

He’ll need surgery and be out of action five to six weeks.

“Good lord,” he says, “what am I going to tell the girls?”

Sam tells Gates she can’t keep the car because he obviously spent too much on it. He tells her Alex learned how to rebuild a car, if she doesn’t take it, she’ll break his heart. Jerry offers her $500 cash. She turns him down.

Mrs. Manning is having irregular breathing. Sam tells her husband it’s part of the dying process.

They’ve known each other 72 years. He met her in sixth grade. He hasn’t looked at another woman since. Sam watches as he tries to say good-bye.

Alex shows up at the bar, with Rachel in tow, and says hi to Benton, Carter, Susan and Kerry.

Carter sits among them as they chat, glum.

In the ER, the bride and mother-in-law continue to go at it, insulting each other. They fight over the husband and son when he arrives.

The Manning’s daughter shows up and tells Sam how tough her mom was, hard on them.

Sam listens and then calls her mom.

Tuesday 1 a.m.

The ER originals stumble out of the bar.

Carter takes Rachel to the ER for a field trip.

Benton walks Elizabeth to her car. He says Cleo is good. Elizabeth says she’s not dating with 9-year-old Elle at home.

They hug good-night and go their separate ways.

Carter brings Rachel and Susan to the ER.

Rachel gets a good floor show that includes maggots and hallucinations. Carter shows Rachel how to do an IV on a passed out drunk dude.

Dr. Banfield sees and isn’t pleased.

Sam finds Gates to tell him Mrs. Manning died.

Her husband wants to stay with her a little longer.

Morris checks on Beverly who was found wandering the streets again.

Sam and Gates watch Mr. Manning say good-bye. Sam takes Tony’s hand.

Carter shoots hoops outside. He’s trying to stay awake so he can call his wife soon.

Gates joins him and asks if Carter is coming back. Maybe.

Chuny comes for Gates. Her alcohol poisoning girl started thrashing. She’s awake, but not coherent and on oxygen.

He orders another CT.

The staff tells Rachel ER war stories.

Julia comes in, she couldn’t sleep.

Then, Sam gets a message: there was an explosion at a power sub-station, at least eight burn and blast victims.

The “ER” theme swells.

Everybody goes on high alert. They gown and glove up and go wait outside. Chuny brings Carter some gear. They stand outside, waiting, as the sirens approach.

The ambulances pull up one after another, and Banfield starts assigning patients.

Rachel watches.

Carter suits up, telling Rachel he has a little déjà vu. He takes a patient. They wheel by Rachel, he turns to her: “Dr. Greene, you coming?”

And the ER bustles once again.

Author: eaplant for IMDB

Why do Television Doctors wear the Scrubs open?

housemdYou watch House MD doctors and they all wear their Scrubs open. Doctor Cameron does it, doctor Chase does it, doctor Foreman does, doctor Cuddy, doctor Wilson, doctor Taub, Doctor Thirteen, Doctor Kutner… everyone do it… well, except Doctor House, but he doesn´t even wear scrubs.

Isn´t the purpose of the scrubs to be closed and protecting the clothes, and being higienic? Well, apparently it´s more important for the show to let people know what they´re wearing underneath, since it´s soooo pretty what they wear.

But let´s see, maybe the problem is House MD… but oh, no, no, no… Grey´s Anatomy doctors also wear their scrubs open… ER doctors do it too, Private Practice doctors do it, even Scrubs doctors do it!

Come on!!!! Close them, button them up… you do so good medical researches for each episode but you can´t say, hey… these are worn buttoned up?

Come on!!!!

George Clooney will go back to ER and play Doug Ross in season finale.

chestgclooneyepa_468x438George Clooney played one of the most important roles in ER history… besides being the most important actor of the series history too…

Now, he´s coming back as rumours say: George Clooney will go back to ER and play Doug Ross in season finale.

After spending four successful seasons with the medical drama, ER, George Clooney went on to a career as a leading man in big budget films. Starring beside such leading ladies as Nicole Kidman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Julia Roberts. Clooney even donned on the black cape and became the comic book hero Batman for the film “Batman and Robin”. Most recently, George Clooney won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Bob Barnes is the critically acclaimed drama “Syriana”.

Clooney has also tried his hand at movie directing and screenplay writing in recent years.

Fans are pretty confident as the NBC official poll is saying 85 % of the audience is expecting George Clooney back to ER.

So, how about you… do you want George Clooney to play Doug Ross in ER this last season of the show?

The complete list of cancelled series for 2008-2009 season

Check for Updates for Season 2009 2010 Cancelled Shows, and for Season 2009 2010 Renewed Shows.

Today we learned that Prison Break is getting cancelled.

But many shows this year are getting to an end… some after many years of success such as having Medical Show ER final season this year, after fifteen seasons, seeing the end come March.

Or a cancelled Boston Legal, another hit show to the trash bin after five seasons.

Sci Fi shows such as Battlestar Galactica and Stargate Atlantis are also getting cancelled.

For both Dirty Sexy Money and Eli Stone, second´s the charm, and won´t be back for a third season.

The controversial show The L-Word is getting cancelled after six seasons too.

The longest run finishing are Total Request Live finishing after nineteen seasons, The Tonight show with Jay Leno with seventeen seasons and The Late show with Conen O´Brien, ending after sixteen seasons.

Also Comedy show MadTV is cancelled after fourteen seasons and many great comedien made famous by the show.

My Own Worst Enemy, Christian Slater´s show couldn´t make it even to ten episodes, and gets cancelled after only nine.

The complete list of cancelled TV Shows for the 2008/2009 season in alphabetical order

4Real (CW)
Ending after seven episodes, final episode on 11/23/2008

Battlestar Galactica (SCI)
Ending after four seasons, final episode on 3/20/2009

Boston Legal (ABC)
Ending after five seasons, final episode on 12/8/2008

Celebrity Expose (MNT)
Ending after two seasons, final episode on 10/27/2008

Charlie Jade (SCI)
Ending after one season, final episode on 10/21/2008

Dirty Sexy Money (ABC)
Ending after two seasons, final episode on TBA

Do Not Disturb (FOX)
Ending after three episodes, final episode on 9/24/2008

Easy Money (CW)
Ending after four episodes, final episode on 10/26/2008

Eli Stone (ABC)
Ending after two seasons, final episode on TBA

The Emperor’s New School (DSNY)
Ended after two seasons, final episode on 11/20/2008

ER (NBC)
Ending after fifteen seasons, final episode on 3/12/2009

The Ex List (CBS)
Ending after four episodes, final episode on 10/24/2008

Flip That House (TLC)
Ending after four seasons, final episode on 10/28/2008

Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends (CAR)
Ending after six seasons, final episode on TBA

In Harm’s Way (CW)
Ending after five episodes, final episode on 10/26/2008

The L-Word (SHO)
Ending after six seasons, final episode on TBA

Late Night With Conan O’Brien (NBC)
Ending after sixteen seasons, final episode on 2/20/2009

Lipstick Jungle (NBC)
Ending after two seasons, final episode on 1/9/2009

MADtv (FOX)
Ending after fourteen seasons, final episode on 5/?/2009

Mind Of Mencia (COM)
Ending after four seasons, final episode on 7/23/2008

Moral Orel (ASW)
Ending after three seasons, final episode on 12/18/2008

My Gym Partner’s A Monkey (CAR)
Ending after four seasons, final episode on 11/27/2008

My Own Worst Enemy (NBC)
Ending after nine episodes, final episode on 12/15/2008

Opportunity Knocks (ABC)
Ending after three episodes, final episode on 10/14/2008

Prison Break (FOX)
Ending after four seasons, final episode on TBA

Pushing Daisies (ABC)
Ending after two seasons, final episode on TBA

The Shield (FX)
Ending after seven seasons, final episode on 11/25/2008

Shin Chan (ASW)
Ending after two seasons, final episode on 12/14/2008

South Of Nowhere (N)
Ending after three seasons, final episode on 12/12/2008

Stargate Atlantis (SCI)
Ending after five seasons, final episode on 1/9/2009

Survivorman (DSC)
Ending after three seasons, final episode on 12/19/2008

The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC)
Ending after seventeen seasons, final episode on 5/29/2009

TRL (MTV)
Ending after nineteen seasons, final episode on 12/16/2008

Valentine (CW)
Ending after four episodes, final episode on 10/26/2008

David Bowie, Josh Meyers and Maria Pitillo are celebrating their birthdays

david-bowie-1Like every day,we honor those actors and actresses who are celebrating their birthdays.

Today, January 8th, many more are getting saluted.

  • James Ordish, Andy in TV Sci Fi Series The Tribe is turning 20.
  • Steven Christopher Parker, Harold Zelinski for 11 episodes of ER is turning also 20.
  • Jaclyn Linetsky, who played Megan O´Connor for 10 episodes of 15/Love and 7 as Lori in What´s with Andy? turns 23.
  • Monica Antonopulos, a beautiful Argentinian actress, who played Ana Monserrat in Vidas Robadas is getting to 27, Monica Antonopulos was also January 2007 playmate of Playboy‘s Argentinian edition .
  • Genevieve Cortese, Kris Furilo from Wildfire and Ruby in 6 episodes of Supernatural is turning 28.
  • Rachel Nichols, Rachel Gibson for 17 episodes of Alias and Special Agente Rebecca Locke for Thirteen episodes of The Inside is now turning 29.
  • Scott Whyte, Christopher Mortimer ‘Chris’ Anderson in City Boys, and also featured in an episode of That´s 70 Show and Full House is turning 31.
  • Amber Benson, Tara McClay in Buffy the Vampire´s Slayer is turning 32 years old and is going to be seen soon in many films such as Bonding, Shifter, The Killing Jar, and Another Harvest Moon.
  • Josh Meyers, Saturday Night Live´s Seth Meyers´little brother, and comedy multicharacter actor in MadTV, and Randy Pearson in That´s 70 Show is turning 33 and his latest movie How to Make Love to a Woman is in post-production.
  • Maria Pitillo, Tina Calcatera in Providence, and Social services agent who dated Joey in Friends is turning 43 today.
  • Michelle Forbes, Ensign Ro Laren in Star Trek, Lynne Kresge from TV Action Show 24, Prison Break´s Samantha Brinker, Karen Decker from ABC´s hit show Lost, and many other roles is turning 44 years old.
  • Rock & Roll Icon David Bowie, who also played Julian Priest in The Hunger, and played himself in Extras, is turning 62 and probably having a great party.

Private Practice – Contamination: Sometimes you just have bad luck in health

jillian-armenanteThis Thursday both Grey´s Anatomy and Private Practice return for back to back episodes, and while watching the promos it hit me: some people just have bad luck when it comes to health.

This is the case of Jillian Armenante, an often secondary roles actress who happens to be Angelina Jolie´s best friend and Maddox´s godmother.

She participated in next Private Practice´s episode, and also in two episodes of Grey´s Anatomy, Strong Medicine and Six Feet Under…

Expect her soon in House MD… that´s about the only doctor who hasn´t met her on TV.

Are George Clooney and Paris Hilton dating? Really?

george-clooney-and-paris-hiltonFirst, it happen at the Whiskey Bar in West Hollywood where “Paris Hilton and George Clooney sat and talked together for ages. They didn’t seem to be aware of anyone else in the room.” according to The Blemish.

The second time in a short span of time was during a meeting involving Geroge Clooney, Paris Hilton, Ridley Scott, David Maisel from Marvel studios and Brittany Flickinger.

Is this all gossip, or George Clooney and Paris Hilton are actually together?

  • George Clooney is twenty years older than Paris Hilton
  • He is also twenty times cooler.
  • George Clooney was the star of successful forever TV Show ER.
  • Paris Hilton was the star of Reality Shows such as The Simple Life and Paris Hilton´s new BFF.
  • Paris Hilton said she “only slept with a couple of people” because she “just kisses the majority of her suitors, and plays “hard to get” to ensure men are serious about dating her”. Paris Hilton Sextape says otherwise.
  • George Clooney is the eternal and ultimate bachelor: He says he will never get married again, nor have any children, but Michelle Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman both bet $10,000 each that he would be a father before he turned 40. They were both wrong, and each sent him a check. He returned the money, betting double or nothing that he won’t have kids by age 50.

If this rumour about Paris Hilton and George Clooney being a couple are true, we´ll probably hear it from Paris, because as George says: “I don’t like to share my personal life… it wouldn’t be personal if I shared it”