Nurse Jackie TV show reviewed by AJN editor

Today Showtime launches Nurse Jackie, its new series starting Edie Falco. The publicity people at Showtime saw my initial post on the trailer, so they sent me the first six episodes to watch. (Don’t worry, nothing I write here should spoil any major plot point in the coming episodes.)

This is already a controversial series. Postings on a nurses’ listserv indicate that many nurses who have watched the trailer or first episode aren’t thrilled with nurse Jackie Peyton. She’s addicted to pain medication that she obtains from the hospital pharmacist with whom she is having an affair. Although she’s smart and a fierce advocate for patients, she often goes beyond the bounds of appropriate professional conduct, as when she forges the signature of a dead bicycle messenger to authorize donation of his organs. (The disregard for official procedures and rules shown by Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry character came to mind when Jackie flushed down the toilet an ear that a prostitute had cut off the john who’d stabbed her.)

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