Discovery Channel Airs Nursing Series
For those of you who are interested in ordering copies of the special Nursing Series shown on the Discovery Health Channel, you may purchase individual episodes on video for $4.95 each (plus shipping and handling) or the entire 5-part series for $23.95 (plus shipping and handling).
The episodes include:
Episode #1: PEDIATRICS
Episode #2: CRITICAL CARE
Episode #3: BATTLING FOR BABIES
Episode #4: TOUCH OF MERCY
Episode #5: NURSING THE MIND
To order, please call 800-475-6636.
NURSES: PEDIATRICS – Premiers Sunday, January 28 at 8:00 PM (ET)
Pediatric nurses lend their expertise and emotional support to both patients and their worried parents. The job demands a special breed of medical professional willing to face difficulties few can imagine.
In this episode, Discovery Health Channel follows first-year nurse Charlie Wheeler, a former Army medic who became a nurse after his own son died, as he struggles with the difficulties of becoming too attached to his patients in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Viewers also learn some of the tricks of the trade from 25-year veteran Pam Butler, who has a true gift for communicating with infants and toddlers.
NURSES: CRITICAL CARE – Premiers Sunday, January 28 at 9:00 PM (ET)
Discovery Health Channel steps into the ER, the OR, and the ICU, where patients are often in crisis, and treatment can be a race against time. In this unpredictable, high-stress, high-tech world, physicians rely on the expertise of these nurses, who must think fast, act creatively, and inevitably, learn to cope with the emotional roller coaster that comes with the job.
In this episode, viewers watch Jean Lucas manage the controlled chaos of an Emergency Department, where nurses at Johns Hopkins cope with the stress of working in a large urban setting. Also, viewers learn how OR nurses Susan Lynch and Germaine Williams coordinate complicated double surgeries so that a wife can donate a kidney to her desperately ill husband.
NURSES: BATTLING FOR BABIES – Premiers Sunday, February 18 at 8:00 PM (ET)
Discovery Health Channel features an inside look at the emotionally charged world of obstetrics and neonatal intensive care nursing, where nurses navigate the many hazards of childbirth, including anxious families, unforeseen problems, and the devastation when a newborn dies.
Viewers watch a medical team deliver premature triplets, then follow the frail threesome to neonatal intensive care, where nurses Colleen Grubb and Mary O’Neill help bring them back from the brink of death. Viewers also follow nurse midwife Jeri Mancini as she provides critical prenatal care to Baltimore inner-city teenagers. Battling for Babies reveals the highs and lows of obstetrics nursing through veteran nurse Mary Evans as she helps bring a healthy baby into the world one moment, then helps a mother cope with loss the next.
NURSES: TOUCH OF MERCY – Premiers Sunday, February 18 at 9:00 PM (ET)
Cancer is one of the most feared diagnoses in medicine, and the nurses willing to deal with the consequences of this disease on a daily basis draw upon special skills. These nurses face the daunting task of keeping cancer patients from losing hope.
Discovery Health Channel introduces viewers to three nurses whose dedication to improving the lives of their patients is remarkable and inspirational. Lillie Shockney, a pioneering nurse with a mission, draws on her own experience with breast cancer as she guides 31-year-old newlywed Kirstin Pickle through the trauma of facing a breast cancer diagnosis herself. Gifted hospice nurse Stephanie Mehr is determined to help a woman dying of lung cancer live well to the end; but in the process risks getting too close to the patient’s family. Nurse Melanie Michel works through a dramatic time in the Bone Marrow Transplant Ward, where two of her leukemia patients wait to see if a new, experimental treatment will save, or take, their lives.
NURSES: NURSING THE MIND – Premiers Sunday, February 18 at 10:00 PM (ET)
Psychiatric nurses must apply their professional training and skills of keen observation and communication in the treatment of patients afflicted with severe mental illness.
In this episode, viewers discover the fascinating challenges that confront highly experienced psychiatric nurses Dan Jackson and Bernie Keenan. These men work treating mental illness such as schizophrenia, depression and even anorexia nervosa, a complex psychiatric disorder. Viewers witness a true battle of wills as nurse Sandy Kirkhoff tries to help eating-disorder patients battle the most deadly of all psychiatric disorders.
For more information: www.discoveryhealth.com