Save a life, you’re a hero. Save 100 lives, you’re a nurse.
New special event series, Nurses, takes audiences straight to the heart of the medical frontline with privileged access to three major city hospitals, introducing the incredible men and women dealing with life and death situations every day.
From the turnstile of medical dramas that come through the doors of St.Vincent’s Hospital on a Saturday night, to the race against the clock of an organ delivery for a heart transplant, or an emergency caesarean operation inside North Sydney’s Mater Hospital, there is always a nurse who makes a difference.
In the premiere episode, Emergency nurses Darren and Yoon have only just arrived for the nightshift when a woman is rushed in by ambulance in cardiac arrest. She has no heartbeat, so a trauma team gathers, hoping to revive her. Every second counts when a life hangs in the balance.
A few floors up from Emergency, in the Heart Lung Clinic, another patient is fighting to live – this time from terminal lung failure. UK-expat Chris was flown from Adelaide to St Vincent’s by the Royal Flying Doctor Service after donor lungs became available.
Now it’s up to transplant coordinator Holly to retrieve the lungs from a donor hospital and give Chris a second chance at life. The stakes are high. If anything goes wrong on the retrieval mission, Chris won’t have long to live.
Over the Sydney Harbour Bridge, at the Mater Hospital, midwife Lucy has been called to assist in an emergency caesarean section after a woman went into labour before they could turn her breech baby.
Lucy will need to act quickly if the baby’s oxygen supply is cut off during the risky birth.
This real-life drama series will also share the nurses’ extraordinary personal stories as they work around the clock providing urgent care to those in need. The dedicated nurses you meet in the series come from diverse backgrounds and share a commitment to care.
Audiences will gain insight into the different career stages and specialities within the nursing profession, including probationers at the beginning of their careers to highly trained midwives and specialists on the organ donor team.
Nurses captures life, death and everything in between through the eyes of nurses in a world where the smallest mistake can have life-threatening consequences.
