Nurses Who Kill

I find this documentary interesting although I wonder why the director hasn't used a nurse as a professional adviser.For the events viewed having a nurses perspective with their standards and exactly what they do would have been more grounded than having a doctor (although well spoken and informative) give a nurses view...physicians do not do our job they are not the expert in our processes. I cannot speak for other countries but in Canada nurses are autonomous from physicians we have our own standards and an excellent knowledge of science that we apply.We work closely with physicians but also lab pharmacy..physio and other professionals...nurses coordinate this and together with all the team support the physician in their decisions. Physicians rely heavily on nursing knowledge and assessment...caring is something ALL professions do. To validate nurses who kill..have a nurse's perspective not a physicians.

The first 3 episodes involve cases that you can find better video documentaries of on YouTube.

Lots of other gripes: 1. The consulting MD for all the episodes has an unnerving habit of smiling while she's discussing horror stories. I can't even watch her.

2. What a tedious, repetitive mess overall. Could have been condensed to 20 mins. In fact, just skip forward till the last 20 mins and save your time.

3. For a series on "Nurses Who Kill", why aren't any nurses consulted? As another reviewer pointed out, we could have provided a much better and more informative commentary on the actions of our fellow nurses.

All the episodes had similar content. Very repetitive, each episode had same sentences used over and over again which makes the documentary kind of boring. More information would be better and would be more interesting for viewers because this documentary had a great potential to be better in terms of real footages used as even the footages were repetitive. They didn't use a single nurse for her/his experience and views on this.

The reconstructions segments for the episodes about American killers were clearly not well-researched. At one point they have their actress wearing a British nurses' uniform instead of scrubs like a nurse would in the US, and some 'Texans' have accents that sound much more like they're from Georgia. It really felt like they were trying to stretch out to fill a time slot too, repeating bits of interview footage over & over.

Many of the episodes of "nurses" who kill have nothing to do with "nurses". There is not such profession as a "carer" and EMT's and other ancillary healthcare professionals are NOT nurses and cannot and DO NOT provide "nursing care". Whoever made this trainwreck doesn't understand the healthcare system at all so it's unlikely the information is nothing more than trite melodrama. Stopped watching after 2 minutes when they kept referring to non nurses providing "nursing care".

I'm not sure why it's so hard to get this right. It's not a complicated concept to understand who is and isn't a "nurse".