I missed the premiere of Jada Pinkett-Smith’s new nursing series HawthoRNe last night. For those of you who also missed it and want to catch up, you can go here to watch the full episode.
My take on HawthoRNe after watching the full episode is that Jada is still not a convincing actress (she never was). But she does a decent job as the feisty head nurse of a county hospital. But I think the producers got Jada’s job title wrong (or maybe it was intentional?)
As far as I know, the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) doesn’t make routine rounds on nursing units or concern herself with hands-on patient care. But we are talking about a TV show here.
The only problem I had with the show was the depiction of the male nurse as some kind of joke or oddity in nursing. That is so no true.
In fact, male nurses are highly respected in the profession and favored over us female nurses. In some hospitals they even draw a higher salary than us to perform the same basic nursing duties. It’s just difficult to get men to come into the nursing profession because it is considered to be a female-dominated field.
