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[fredericks]

PBS 13 in NYC is currently showing "Now on PBS", and this episode chronicles the job of the hospital nurse and the impending nursing shortage. It is awesome and hits home (and one of my former classmates is featured!). It will be re-aired at midnight on Sunday October 27th.

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[xioley.livejournal.com]

I just saw the episode on my local PBS, er I'm pretty sure it was the same thing. It prominently featured New York Presbyterian. Was your classmate the renal nurse or burn unit nurse? I have to say that if I were to ever become a nurse, I'd have to request not to be in burn units. Nothing else makes me queasy from hearing about it or seeing something on tv (even if it's completely fictional).

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

The woman from the renal floor. I rotated on that burn unit during my Med-Surg internship. Most patients are drugged to the gills but dressing and cleaning the wounds still cause agony. It takes a strong heart to deal with all of that day in and day out.

NY Pres has an excellent reputation and state-of-the-art *everything*, so it's usually pretty well staffed when it comes to nurses. Students fall over themselves for a chance to get in there. The understaffing at that place is usually *nothing* in comparison to local city establishments. But, then again, those places don't look as pretty and so wouldn't make good documentary material.